Irony in Irony

This is a post of sheer silliness, so if you're purely glancing for an update or important information, you won't find it here.  My apologies, but if you feel obliged to read on, please enjoy.

In my spare time on my day off today, I escaped the warming desert and sand by sitting in my cubicle and watching a "chic-flick" (sort of) while painting my nails.  At home, I would be thinking up a delicious meal list for the week or ironing or calling on my husband at work to eat lunch with him.  However, with none such things available or practical, I found myself curled up in my cubicled bunk bed watching "Becoming Jane."  Thanks to the free movie rentals, I waste no money in these cinematic indulgences.

If you've read any of Jane Austin's novels, they are all of love, the plights of love in marriages where love is met but impossible in the relationship of differing social statuses.  Strangely enough, this movie of the authoress's (an old-ish term) life seems to turn out very much like one of her books except by one depressing, ironic detail: despite multiple proposals and a very real and passionate love, she never marries.  I will tell you that I like the truth of biographical information (I know films aren't fully truth, yes), even when it is ironic, but not when the ending turns out in a depressing way.  You must understand the fragile emotions of a woman who is physically separated from her husband and has found herself hanging on to the life circumstances and consequences of the the heroine of the movie...only to have her left alone, unwed yet accomplished, in a fit of irony.  Please know that I am being overly dramatic in order to make my point and yes, you should laugh at my 5 minutes of sad foolishness.  I am cared for deeply by a wonderful, God-fearing and so very loving husband, so I need not live through movie romances.  They will ALWAYS fall short, as we all know.  It is acting, after all.

The irony in Austin's ironic tale: 'Irony is the bringing together of contradictory truths to make out of the contradiction a new truth with a laugh or a smile.'  Or as another character put it 'I find irony as insult with a smiling face.'  Take it as you may.  No more 18th-19th century love stories for me, at least for now.