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  SPEAKER_02: Hey, hey, hey.
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  SPEAKER_02: Hello.
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  SPEAKER_02: Welcome back to 1-800-1800, your favorite podcast.
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  SPEAKER_01: Every episode we talk about one glorious year of the 19th century.
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  SPEAKER_01: And this is actually a paid bonus episode where we're talking
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  SPEAKER_01: about our favorite book slash movie, Sense and Sensibility.
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  SPEAKER_01: Our favorite movie slash book of the current week. Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: I actually didn't like it famously.
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  SPEAKER_02: My name is Mabel.
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  SPEAKER_02: I'm Madeline.
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  SPEAKER_02: And we co-founded Mandylion Press.
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  SPEAKER_02: So in addition to the podcast, we also published 19th century novels that you ought to read.
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  SPEAKER_02: Ones that I do like.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, ones that I do like.
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  SPEAKER_02: I like Sense and Sensibility.
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  SPEAKER_02: I just don't love Sense and Sensibility.
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  SPEAKER_02: I thought it was boring.
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  SPEAKER_01: I actually, okay, before we get into it, let's say like I'm not a Jane Austen person.
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  SPEAKER_01: I am. And you are.
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  SPEAKER_01: So there's sort of, you know,
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  SPEAKER_01: we're representing both sides in this episode of the Jane Austen universe.
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  SPEAKER_01: I had the problem with this book that I think I always have with Jane Austen,
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  SPEAKER_01: although like I did like Mansfield Park,
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  SPEAKER_01: which is that it just dragged on.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_02: Okay. So have you read Emma or Pride and Prejudice or Persuasion?
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because I started Pride and Prejudice and not been able to get that far into it.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I've never tried Emma or Persuasion, but I loved the Emma movie when I was a kid.
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  SPEAKER_02: Emma and Persuasion don't drag the way I experienced Sense and Sensibility to drag.
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  SPEAKER_02: I just don't remember. I feel like Pride and Prejudice does drag a little bit.
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  SPEAKER_02: I feel that when her novels have only one word in their title, they're shorted.
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  SPEAKER_02: And also like Persuasion is the one I think she wrote last.
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  SPEAKER_02: It was definitely published last.
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  SPEAKER_02: And I think she like comes into her own.
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  SPEAKER_02: And so I would recommend that you read that next.
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  SPEAKER_02: I can speak about my Jane Austen journey a little.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah. Why don't you?
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  SPEAKER_02: So I have the pleasure of having the copies of Jane Austen novels that I bought
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  SPEAKER_02: in elementary school when I sort of had bigger reading ambitions
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  SPEAKER_02: than my capabilities were at the time.
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  SPEAKER_02: And so I have a Barnes & Noble classics edition from 2004,
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  SPEAKER_02: which is completely mangled.
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  SPEAKER_02: And then my Pride and Prejudice edition has Keira Knightley on the cover.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's so awesome. It's like from the movie.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_02: But of course, I actually couldn't read these as a child.
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  SPEAKER_02: It was too hard even for me.
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  SPEAKER_02: And I was extremely smart, you guys.
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  SPEAKER_02: So I came back to Jane Austen as an adult.
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  SPEAKER_02: I just checked my reading log.
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  SPEAKER_02: I read all of them in 2021 at the recommendation of my friend Anna.
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  SPEAKER_02: And fascinating that I knew you then. I know.
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  SPEAKER_01: I always thought your Jane Austen journey predated our friendships.
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  SPEAKER_02: That's what's so interesting.
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  SPEAKER_02: Like, I actually think something like clicked for me in 2021.
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  SPEAKER_02: We already were friends.
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  SPEAKER_02: I like leapt into Jane Austen.
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  SPEAKER_02: And that was when I did a lot of my kind of like hitting all the classics,
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  SPEAKER_02: 19th century reading, which I feel was sort of the preamble to starting Mandylion.
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  SPEAKER_02: And I actually like remember for some reason,
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  SPEAKER_02: it was the summer that I got my knee surgery, if you recall.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I remember.
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  SPEAKER_02: So I was home at my dad's house and I was like really isolated.
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  SPEAKER_02: It was also still kind of COVID.
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  SPEAKER_02: So it's like I didn't see anyone...
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  SPEAKER_02: And I was very isolated because I couldn't walk.
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  SPEAKER_02: And I feel like we were texting a lot.
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  SPEAKER_02: It was also the summer that you and I decided to take
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  SPEAKER_02: a philosophy class together
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh yeah, that we went to once, I think.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah. Don't remember what it was about, like phenomenology or something maybe?
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  SPEAKER_02: Or Marx?
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh, I don't remember.
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  SPEAKER_02: It was something insane.
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  SPEAKER_01: It was so boring.
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  SPEAKER_02: I feel like you and I were like circling what would become...
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  SPEAKER_02: Such an important time in our friendship and in history itself.
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  SPEAKER_02: And I started with Persuasion and then I read Emma and then I read Pride
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  SPEAKER_02: and Prejudice and then Sense and Sensibility.
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  SPEAKER_02: And then later I read some of her lesser known novels like Mansfield Park and Northanger Abbey.
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  SPEAKER_02: So and I've also read the like epistolary one, which is
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  SPEAKER_01: Lady Susan and So I've read all of them.
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  SPEAKER_01: I just haven't read The Juvenalia.
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  SPEAKER_01: There's actually an unfinished novel called like The Brothers or something.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_02: I could do some more digging.
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  SPEAKER_01: If you were being a completist.
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  SPEAKER_02: If I was being a completist.
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  SPEAKER_02: So Sense and Sensibility was like kind of the last of the fun ones, you know, that I read.
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  SPEAKER_02: And I was like, oh, this is the worst one.
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  SPEAKER_02: And I actually remember I was reading it on this like extremely...
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  SPEAKER_02: Notorious in my mind, like group friend vacation later that summer, which was just absolutely.
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  SPEAKER_02: I don't know what you're talking about.
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  SPEAKER_02: I can't speak about it publicly.
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