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+Geeky Mary Bennet
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+
+:date: 2023-06-25T18:03:43
+:category: literature
+:tags: review, austeniana, blogComment
+
+I have originally commented on “`Mr. Collins, a male lead??? Is
+this possible?`_” by u/JenniferRAKim on That Site, but now I
+think I would just leave it here as a prompt:
+
+.. _`Mr. Collins, a male lead??? Is this possible?`:
+    https://www.reddit.com/r/JaneAustenFF/comments/142qfn9/comment/jn89we8/
+
+That’s one way, or of course if it leads to my preferred ship Mr
+Collins/Mary Bennet (and religion taken seriously, not as an soon
+to be discarded after thought).
+
+Something like “`Far Above Rubies`_” by Beatrice_Otter or “`Let
+Her Own Works Praise Her in the Gates`_” by ChronicBookworm.
+
+I have in my head this scene::
+
+    INT. Netherfield dinning room, evening after the dinner,
+    small groups of people are talking, sound of general chatter in
+    the room. Camera wanders through the room looking at those
+    groups. MARY BENNET talks quietly with MR COLLINS.
+    Interrupted by
+    
+        MARY BENNET
+        (shrieking)
+    Mr Collins!
+    
+    MR DARCY, MR BENNET, some SOLDIERS run towards the pair
+    and threateningly surround them.
+    
+        MR BENNET
+        (threateningly)
+    Mary, what did he do?
+    
+        MARY BENNET
+        (looking excited, even perhaps a bit aroused,
+        face flushed, her bosom is heaving heavily)
+    Can you imagine? Mr Collins declared that he finds
+    interesting Luther’s concept of temporary existence of
+    the church rising up in the congregation of believers under
+    The Word being preached. How shocking!
+    
+    Camera slowly shows faces of people surrounding them,
+    completely confused and unbelieving what they hear.
+
+(BTW, Luther’s `concept of Church`_ is truly interesting, perhaps
+not in the arousing level, but quite remarkable nevertheless).
+
+----
+
+I don’t have a good plot, and most of the stuff have been already
+written. There are two thoughts which I have, but these were
+already written couple of times:
+
+* Elisabeth (or Mr Bennet, when Mr Collins comes for permission
+  to ask for her hand) suggest to Mr Collins that their marriage
+  is completely stupid idea, because:
+
+  1. there is absolutely no love from Elizabeth to him,
+
+  2. Elizabeth is constitutionally unfit to be a pastor’s wife
+
+  3. there is a third Bennet’s sister, Mary, for whom being a
+     pastor’s wife is actually a wet dream, and for whom visiting
+     sick parishioners would be the dream coming true.
+
+  That was written by many, for example (aside from those
+  stories I linked before) “`If Only`_” by DesertVixen, “`The Second
+  Chance`_” by violet_baudelaire, or “`This is what we’ve sown`_” by
+  Kissed_by_Circe.
+
+  That is however just a setup of the relationship, we could get
+  then to this relationship of two theology geeks (as shown in the
+  scene above; kind of Sheldon or Lisa Simpson meets theology), I
+  don’t have enough plot to make it into real story.
+
+* Alternative would be just opposite: yes, Mr Collins is as inept
+  as Miss Austen suggests he is, and all Bennets sisters unite
+  in one thing in their life and that is they don’t want to have
+  anything to do with him. In the end he is kicked away (and
+  marries Charlotte if you want, or marries a other random girl,
+  later from sexual frustration starts to visit prostitutes, gets
+  STD, and dies as complete wreck in the ruins of his supposedly
+  holy life).
+
+  Fortunately, whole issue of entail is made moot by three
+  sisters marrying and two of them very well (Jane and Elisabeth)
+  as in the canon. In the end, nobody knows what to do with Mary
+  (and her parents are getting too old and sick to take care
+  for her), so she moves to live with Elisabeth and Mr Darcy at
+  Pemberley. There she meets some distant cousin (or some random
+  man) of Mr Darcy who is a theology student, and Amy Farrah
+  Fowler meets her Sheldon Cooper with geekiness abounding. With
+  “a little” help of Mr Darcy, the guy (now all done pastor) gets
+  a position of the pastor for the church in Lambton and they get
+  their HEA perhaps combined with happily observing the ruin of Mr
+  Collins, bankruptcy of completely incompetent Lady Catherine de
+  Bourgh etc.
+
+  And of course, the Regency Era was also time of `William
+  Wilberforce`_, `Clapham Sect`_, or for the more social work
+  part of the Church `Sunday School Society`_. Why they cannot
+  participate in that and make it slightly cross-over with those
+  real movements? Something like that is suggested in “Let Her Own
+  Works Praise Her in the Gates”, but I think one could make a lot
+  of fun with it more.
+
+The End
+
+----
+
+.. _`Far Above Rubies`:
+    https://archiveofourown.org/works/15181952
+
+.. _`Let Her Own Works Praise Her in the Gates`:
+    https://archiveofourown.org/works/15122771
+
+.. _`If Only`:
+    https://archiveofourown.org/works/20184559
+
+.. _`The Second Chance`:
+    https://archiveofourown.org/works/1014291
+
+.. _`This is what we’ve sown`:
+    https://archiveofourown.org/works/43535736
+
+.. _`concept of Church`:
+    https://www.biblicaltraining.org/learn/institute/ch643-martin-luther/ch643-18-luthers-view-of-the-church
+
+.. _`William Wilberforce`:
+    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wilberforce
+
+.. _`Clapham Sect`:
+    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clapham_Sect
+
+.. _`Sunday School Society`:
+    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday_School_Society