May 14th, 2010 / 5:55 pm
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Wi-fithering Heights

What the hell, is that a laptop by Emily Bronte (d. 1848)? I assumed it was photo-shopped, but upon searching online, every version I found (from reliable non-satirical websites) shows the same laptop. It also looks like she’s fingering (probably should’ve used another word) her phone.

It’s highly unlikely, if not impossible, that photo-shopping was a collaborated effort; one can only assume this is the actual painting. I don’t know much about 18th century English apparatuses, so maybe this is easily explained, but to me it simply looks like a laptop. Wuthering Heights contains ghosts, schizophrenia, and crazy shit happening outside windows; add those together and you got a junior in high school who would rather do his algebra homework than read for English class. (I saw the movie, and got a B+.) First published under the androgynous pseudonym “Ellis Bell,” the book remains one of the most vivid yet puzzling works I’ve encountered. She wrote the book when she was 29, and died the next year. How could one, never loved, know so much about it? Wi-fi’d Emily could’ve used some eHarmony — I think Edgar Allan Poe (d. 1849) was single back then.

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27 Comments

  1. May 14th, 2010 / 6:15 pm Matthew Simmons—

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  2. May 14th, 2010 / 7:41 pm MoGa—

      Does look like a laptop and phone. :)

  3. May 14th, 2010 / 8:15 pm Ken Baumann—

      YES.

  4. May 14th, 2010 / 9:33 pm David—

      loved this

  5. May 14th, 2010 / 10:15 pm Matthew Simmons—

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  6. May 14th, 2010 / 11:09 pm Paul—

      BACK! HE IS BACK! :)

  7. May 14th, 2010 / 11:41 pm Molly Gaudry—

      Does look like a laptop and phone. :)

  8. May 15th, 2010 / 12:15 am Ken Baumann—

      YES.

  9. May 15th, 2010 / 1:33 am David—

      loved this

  10. May 15th, 2010 / 1:38 am EC—

      I want to be EB’s laptop.

  11. May 15th, 2010 / 3:09 am Paul Cunningham—

      BACK! HE IS BACK! :)

  12. May 15th, 2010 / 3:45 am zuysa—

      so EB was a time traveler. go fig. i’m more concerned with her apparent lack of a left shoulder.

  13. May 15th, 2010 / 5:06 am Joseph Marcure—

      Fingering was the right word, I think. Anyway, I very much enjoyed this.

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  15. May 15th, 2010 / 5:38 am EC—

      I want to be EB’s laptop.

  16. May 15th, 2010 / 7:44 am Stefanie—

      What we see is probably an embroidery hoop.

  17. May 15th, 2010 / 9:06 am Joseph Marcure—

      Fingering was the right word, I think. Anyway, I very much enjoyed this.

  18. May 15th, 2010 / 11:44 am Stefanie—

      What we see is probably an embroidery hoop.

  19. May 15th, 2010 / 5:49 pm Blake Butler—

      why is her face so much whiter than her chest and neck

  20. May 15th, 2010 / 6:00 pm uhhhhh—

      what the hell is up with the google-search-bot richmond heights auto-link thing

  21. May 15th, 2010 / 6:45 pm Weekend Bites: Brontë-mania, Lost Books, Eisenberg Going Hungary, Dalloway Turns 85, and More « Vol. 1 Brooklyn—

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  22. May 15th, 2010 / 7:57 pm michael—

      blackface tan

  23. May 15th, 2010 / 9:49 pm Blake Butler—

      why is her face so much whiter than her chest and neck

  24. May 15th, 2010 / 10:00 pm uhhhhh—

      what the hell is up with the google-search-bot richmond heights auto-link thing

  25. May 15th, 2010 / 11:57 pm michael—

      blackface tan

  26. May 17th, 2010 / 10:41 am Pete Michael Smith—
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