Recently I have been reading Fordyce's Sermons. Why? Because I made a joke about it on my Facebook page and thought "Hmmm...I should really read a bit since I only know it in the Pride and Prejudice sense." Not that I don't know it in the Biblical sense. Not that Fordyce would think that was funny. It is definitely not something that Fordyce would let a young lady know about it or heaven forbid! Joke about. But I am not a Fordyce woman so much so that I mocked Fordyce in P & P making Mr. Collins like it and read it to his cousins.
In his sermons Fordyce says "Men of the best sense have usually been averse to the thought of marrying a witty female." Well this is obviously a reason why Lizzie would never get married, but doesn't it ring a little similar to Dorothy Parker's gem "Men don't make passes at girl's who wear glasses." Back in her time women who wore glasses were normally considered the smart ones and not the pretty ones. Or shall we call them the witty ones. Now men seem to love the idea of women in glasses. It's that whole naughty librarian fantasy that men have where we women take off our glasses, shake out our hair and say in a sultry voice "Mr. S, do you know what the penalty for an over due book is?"
Fordyce was a man whose sermons did not live up to time. His ideas were outdated by the time I came around, but that doesn't mean they don't make for good reading today. I might have to see what else Ms. Parker might have cannibalized or in truth just made better and funnier. Not that I don't think Ms. Parker is amazing. Hey in my little hick town I think I might start my own Algonquin Round Table where I am Ms. Parker and I have a bunch of drunken followers.
Hey! Every girl can dream. Especially this girl who might not wear glasses but sure as hell is witty especially since she made an incite/insight double entendre today and there are only so many men who will be incited by passion with that!
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