Scientific Proof!

Have just read Donald Miller's Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Philosophy.

It is a great book, I know longer feel like a freak thanks to chapters like "How to go to church without getting angry" (although I disagree with his solution but more on that another blog maybe!). I said some huge "Amen's" to his thoughts along the way (obviously silently in my head!), I laughed a lot and was also hugely challenged about a load of stuff I profess to believe and 'give my life' to.

I also recently went to see Pride and Prejudice. Satisyingly, it managed to induce the right level of melancholy in me to ensure an angst-ridden-internal-monologue-on-the woes-of-love, all the way from Milton Keynes to home.

This, despite being a clunky film at best. Kiera Knightly managing to have far too much make-up on in a number of scene's. A colour spectrum ranging from near gothic black and white to almost disney like technicolour, leaving me wondering which genre I was supposed to be in...and a complete lack of Colin Firth, frankly!

So feeling that everyone was entitled to love against the odds and that the world was a beautiful, if tortured, place I was very amused to read chapter 13 of Blue Like Jazz, Donald Miller writes...

"Here's a tip I've never used: I understand you can learn a great deal about girldom by reading Pride and Prejudice, and I own a copy but have never read it. I tried. It was given to me by a girl with a little note inside that read: What is in this book is the heart of a woman. I am sure the heart of a woman is pure and lovely but the first chapter of said heart is hopelessly boring. Nobody dies at all. I kept the book on my shelf because girls come into my room, sit on my couch and eye the books on the adjacent shelf. You have a copy of Pride and prejudice, they exclaim with a gentle sigh and smile. Yes, I say. Yes, I do."

I mentioned this to a male friend who said he does the same with Men are from Mars... Women are from Venus. Somewhat going against type, he also claimed to have read it! (Hmmn?!?)

Meanwhile, I saw a postcard in a shop at a London tube station that declared "Men are from earth, Women are from earth...get over it".

Maybe when it comes to matters of love, whatever kind, it is time to get a little less like the movies and a little more real.

Universal Evidence
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