Re: Highlander: Jane Austen

I admit that I never read Jane Austen and have never tried to do so on
the grounds that I've never liked that sort of book and probably never
will.  If I'm going to be confined to a drawing room, I prefer Oscar
Wilde's take on that milieu over Austen's.  Fortunately, Austen's work
was never assigned to me in any class. The science fiction class I
took in college was taught by a Jane Austen scholar who started off
feeling very much like a fish out of water.  I think she learned more
from teaching the course than the students did.  She particularly
enjoyed analyzing Dune in terms of Greek mythology.

Shomeret