and i thought--but, still, i thought, 'jane austen? everybody loves jane austen.' so shapiro did his thing. he said, 'did you guys like it?' and it was very apparent that the girls liked it; the men didn't. and then he turned the thing over to me. and i--i was angry. i was furious at the men. i thought they had to--you know, they had to love jane austen or else they'd never grow up. they had to realize how important elizabeth bennet, the heroine of "pride & prejudice," was because she's a kind of student. and jane austen--it's--it's--it's a love story. it's basic rom--romantic comedy plot that people have been stealing from for 200 years. but it is about knowledge and perception: how do we read one another's characters, how do we read letters, how do we read each other--how do we read ourselves?-- "pride & prejudice." and she's a kind of ideal student. and they're--they're, of course, students too. so i bullied them and i lectured them and shapiro's getting sort of tense and nervous and drumming his fingers and glaring at me. and after about 40 minutes, he called m