Shahnaz Ahmed
@bookishpodcast · 2:56
Hamilton and Pride & Prejudice
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So I'm watching the show and, you know, the song I'll write my way out in the eye of the Hurricane, and he's like, I'll write my way out. And I don't know why there he is, writing his way out to, I guess, defend his legacy to save his legacy. And I thought about writing. And I thought about Mr. Darcy after Eliza turns him down, what does she do? I mean, what does he do?
I've always had this habit of at least making a dump of the things that I need to get done through the day before I get started on my work or my everyday routine. That kind of helps me declutter and gives me more thinking space. And I kind of feel a lot more relaxed when I know for a fact that these are the things that I have to kind of work on during the day. So and the same applies for feelings and emotions as well
Tim Ereneta
@Tim · 1:22
Hey, Shahnaz, I had this thought listening to you. It's. It's not such a random inference. I mean, I wouldn't connect Hamilton and Jane Austin necessarily. But I will say this. They are contemporaneous stories, right? The Reynolds pamphlet came out in 1797. Prejudice published 1813. These two men are existing within the same generation and same span of historical time
Shahnaz Ahmed
@bookishpodcast · 4:52
But when you're actually writing your way out, as you said, the Reynolds pamphlet in a very public way, or even the private way of Mr. Darcy, you can actually sit there and think it out and go, okay, so here are the charges laid against me, as in Reynolds pamphlet. And my charge is this and this is my connection. And this is exactly what happened
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