290–Catching Cooties
Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, Chapter 20.
Our reader, Elizabeth Klett continues to rock Jane Eyre for us!
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Fun fact–We believe that most films have not filmed Chapters 19 or 20. Check out Episode’s 288’s comments for a link to a youtube video where they got Blanche right.
Smelling salts, aka volatile salts, when used, release ammonia gas gas that triggers an inhalation reflex causing you to breathe deeply and increase heart rate, blood pressure, and brain activity.
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Crafty News:
- A Creative Cootie Catcher to help you out of a creativity rut, designed by David Seah. He practices exploring, learning, building and sharing and this Fortune Teller/Cootie Catcher is part of his New Product a Day Challenge for February 2013.
- The second issue of Knit Edge is now available! Knit Edge is a magazine published by our good friend, Cooperative Press. Yours truly has a podcasting column in it! Kate Atherly has a fantastic article on socks. There’s a fab-u-lous guernsey by Janine LeCras. There are many wonderful patterns, please check it out!
- The Fourth Annual Rose City Yarn Crawl in Portland Oregon will be Feb 28 – March 3, 2013.
- Ever wish there was Project Runway for Knitters? Now there is. Applications for The Fiber Factor are now open and due on Sunday, March 24, 2013. Will you swatch? Or will you Watch? The wonderful Amy Detjen is a judge along with many other fabulous people! Sorry, this is only for US Residents aged 21 or over because of shipping.
- There is another great book from our friend, Cooperative Press, (aren’t they all?). Bargello Knits by Patty Nance. The colorwork in these patterns is unique and stunning.
General Newsy Bits:
- Petition to raise awareness about the need to update and fix the VA–learn more about the petition to fix the Veterans Association and direct link to petition.
- The shop has been receiving some much needed attention and we are now able to offer downloads of the books — audiobooks with benefits. More payment options beyond paypal will be available very soon. If you are looking for a book from Craftlit that we did years ago, please hang in there. We’re reprocessing for better audio and cutting some of the extra stuff so it’s a nice streamlined download. As those are ready we’ll add them to the shop. Wuthering Heights and Canterville Ghost originally available free to premium subscribers is now available for purchase. Cool for Cats is also available for purchase.
- If you want to subscribe to support the show, you can read all about the new interface here and discover the simplicity of listening to CraftLit on-the-go on your iPhone/iTouch/Android for free. Next book… Alice in Wonderland! More options on the way for those of you without US credit cards, without a credit card at all, and for those of you who simply prefer to stay off the grid and use checks. More as soon as it’s set up!
- This past weekend there was a wonderful NPR interview with the author, Paula Byrne, of The Real Jane Austen–A Life in Small Things
. Her excitement of Jane is what will make this a different take than your usual womb-to-tomb biography.
- Please feel free to join our Knit-a-Long for Jane’s Ubiquitous Shawl. I’m done, but starting another (color me gluttonous).
- What (else) Would Madame Defarge Knit?—this time in color!—is available for pre-order!
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Thanks so much for the explanation of smelling salts. I’ve never taken the time to find out for myself what they are even though, like you, I’ve heard of them many times. Jane Eyre is one of my favorite books, and I’m really enjoying all the background info.
I am reading the Jane Austen book – the approach reminds me of The Age of Homespun by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. Which is a great book.
The February incentive for The Spinner’s Book of Yarn Designs looks yummy! What a nice give-away. Thanks for putting this up. Additionally, I am loving Jane Eyre! I can’t count the number of times I have read the book, and am amazed that I am still learning new things about it.
Well – I’ve always said I don’t read fiction. But, I have been running more and have run out of podcasts so I decided to give Craftlit a try. I am completely surprised by how much I am enjoying the story of Jane Eyre. Thank you for this podcast – I think your commentary before and after the chapters is helping me to make sense of it all!
Would love the spinning book too. 🙂 I’m a spinner, not a great spinner, but always looking for good instructions to improve my craft.
Oh – and shame on you for sparking my interest in Zentangles, too! 🙂
I’ve just started listening to the podcasts of Jane Eyre and I am enjoying the story and all of the corresponding information. What a treat to have something wonderful to listen to as I spin. I can see I have much to look forward to hearing in the future. Thanks so much!
Funny story about smelling salts. I am 28, so this was only about 10 or 11 years ago that I was giving blood at a Red Cross blood drive at my high school in suburban Atlanta, when… it didn’t go so well. (I’ve never been able to successfully donate blood at any time after that, either) Things were going well when I started to pass out. They were unable to keep me from passing out but broke out smelling salts to wake me up. I assume they are the same as the ones you referred to being used in boxing because all I recall was the overpowering smell of ammonia. I don’t know if that is common, to use them at Red Cross blood drives, and while I’ve passed out several times since when trying to give blood (sometimes when they’re drawing blood at the doctor), no one has ever used smelling salts on me again. Not an experience I’d like to do over though. Its a pretty awful way to wake up.
Enjoying the book-keep up the good work!
In the current crisis – well, as if there’s any shortage in the house of knitting-, spinning- and other crafty materials – I would love to win a book like this. Have been ‘looking inside’ and think it’s great.
and now that I’m here anyway, I love listening to your podcast, while knitting, spinning and especially while travelling by train – thank you so much for all the interesting things you add to the books!
hi! i listened to the episode yesterday, and then last night i started watching a 1983 BBC miniseries version of Jane, in which they include the part where Rochester plays the gypsy fortuneteller! i’ve had it in my Netflix instant queue forever, and have slowly been working my way through all the film and TV versions. it’s not my favorite of all the interpretations of JE i’ve seen; it has a bit of that quality like you are watching a stage play that was filmed, but it’s not bad, and because it’s a miniseries they take it all a little more slowly than the films do. just thought i would let you know, since i had never seen this scene before either (i’ve never read the book until now, so it was my first time with the fortuneteller, and i got “her” twice in one day!).
“Fun fact–We believe that most films have not filmed Chapters 19 or 20”.
So, you really need to watch the 2006 version because it includes–the gypsy scene, Jane informing Rochester about Mr. Mason’s arrival, the attack on Mason, the wait for the doctor and the walk in the garden. I could not find a YouTube clip to share but I will see if I can copy a clip from my own DVD when I get home.
Never mind – I couldn’t take it anymore so I found your wishlist on Amazon. Look for the DVD by Tuesday, 2/19. Enjoy!