Anna Karenina vs Emma Bovary: FITE!

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I'm not particularly interested in which is better (I have my opinion which i will reveal when we get to post 30), howver which one of these literary heroines would win in a nineteenth century fight.

Can someone pick a suitable litary venue too, and referee.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 27 February 2003 13:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Place: Box Hill. Referee: Tristram Shandy.

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 27 February 2003 13:11 (twenty-three years ago)

kugelmass to thread

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 27 February 2003 13:12 (twenty-three years ago)

I was thinking HG Well's Guildford in odd mind meld shockah.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 27 February 2003 13:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Obv no-one wants to know what I think is better.

Bovary strikes me as the hair pulling type.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 27 February 2003 14:02 (twenty-three years ago)

pete answer my silences of the palace thread

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 27 February 2003 14:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Well Pete though I haven't read Anna Karenina so couldn't really say, you must remember that Emma Bovary is a stout Norman farm girl and as such could probably hold her own in a fite.

― Emma, Thursday, 27 February 2003 14:07 (twenty-three years ago)

And she has the cold, ruthless heart of a killer.

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 27 February 2003 14:11 (twenty-three years ago)

I think the smart money is initially on Bovary but can we discount the history of French - Russia battles?

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 27 February 2003 14:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Bovary, especially as Anna gets ill the whole time.

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 27 February 2003 14:22 (twenty-three years ago)

I think it would be a bore draw, nil - nil, no golden goal and an infinite penalty shoot-out.

But then I'm a curmudgeon.

― chris (chris), Thursday, 27 February 2003 14:22 (twenty-three years ago)

emma cannot pass dope control

― erik, Thursday, 27 February 2003 14:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Gee, who'd have guessed ILE's A+E would rematerialize on this thread, of all places? I heard the a while ago that one of them called the other one a "minging slag." I certainly wouldn't take that if I were her! No, I'd get all up in this thread and tell her exactly what I thought of that.

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 27 February 2003 16:09 (twenty-three years ago)

(As a side-note I sort of think Anna K would take it, just because Emma B has those prissy / selfish / whiny tendencies. Sort of like how on Fox Celebrity Boxing, Paula Jones got in the ring and then suddenly seemed, like, resistant to the idea that she was actually supposed to fight, so instead she ran away from Tanya Harding for several minutes with her hands up, in a "no fair, quit hitting me" manner. I think Emma B might perceive herself as having about that level of dignity. Whereas Anna K = Russian = what Gary Schteyngart calls something like "a people always perfecting new forms of misery" = will roll up sleeves and kick Bovarian ass.)

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 27 February 2003 16:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Nabisco is completely OTM.

― Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 27 February 2003 16:14 (twenty-three years ago)

too many Emma Bs

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 27 February 2003 16:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Nabisco, neither me or Ms Luvscake belong in an episode of Bad Girls. We are both delightful young ladies who would never use the phrase 'minging slag'.

Some people...

(I have been mainly off line due to British Telecom line fault and much browser flim flam)

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 27 February 2003 16:17 (twenty-three years ago)

(Confidential to Mark: how about irregular Spanish verb "tener" vs. irregular French verb "asseoir," FITE?)

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 27 February 2003 16:19 (twenty-three years ago)

(And Anna, with that kind of attitude she'll make short work of you.)

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 27 February 2003 16:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Aside: Peter of these parts versus regular French -er verb peter.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 27 February 2003 16:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Tess of the d'Urbervilles could take them both on. Those feisty milk-maids defy belief!

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 27 February 2003 16:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Peter versus le petomane in a fartfite would be even more fun.

(Lara is OTM, by the way)

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 27 February 2003 16:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, that is kinda the point, what joy what fun when in 12-year old French a bbored kid in the class decides to see if anyones names mean anything in foreign using their newly minted COllins English-French/French_English dictionary. Being called fartboy wasn't much fun I can tell you.

Eustacia Vye would have the lot of of them including Tess. But I don't think we're counting on Hardy heroines who are the nineteenth century version of Robert Heinlein heroines.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 27 February 2003 16:27 (twenty-three years ago)

My god, it just occurred to me I've never read either of these books. (I have read Tolstoy and Flaubert, though -- weird.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 27 February 2003 16:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Why would you want to read them when there are perfectly entertaining and abridged TV versions??

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 27 February 2003 16:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Not to mention a soon to be aired Pay-Per-View cage fight?

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 27 February 2003 16:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Ha ha. If only...

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 27 February 2003 16:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Anna, Anna, Anna..... (sigh)

― stevo (stevo), Thursday, 27 February 2003 16:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Why would you want to read them when there are perfectly entertaining and abridged TV versions??

I've heard of this 'TV'...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 27 February 2003 16:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Tess of the d'Urbervilles could take them both on. Those feisty milk-maids defy belief!

Come on Lara, anyone who names their baby Sorrow has wuss written all over them.

I vote Maggie Tulliver.

(aw, blueski, so sweet)

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 27 February 2003 16:54 (twenty-three years ago)

The crazy thing is that all the Emma Bs are actually the same person.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 27 February 2003 17:45 (twenty-three years ago)

I reckon Anna Kournikova would beat Emma Bunton easy. (No, I read every thread thoroughly before posting. How dare you!)

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 27 February 2003 22:45 (twenty-three years ago)

God Bless Flaubert for scaring me off ever wanting to get married.

― Joe (Joe), Friday, 28 February 2003 02:44 (twenty-three years ago)

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