Thursday, March 22, 2018

March 22, 2003


Got up at 9:37.

Dreamed of a neighbour's dispute near our cottage resulting from someone pulling a stake out of the ground; a French comic book (I was thinking about how hard they are to find in Toronto); a book of children's puzzles; an LP of Mary Poppins songs; a church pamphlet for children from the '60s.

Dinner was pork chops (which I fried).

Saw the silent movie Moulin Rouge, about a cabaret star whose daughter gets engaged to a young aristocrat who decides he prefers the mother. (It's part of a series inspired by Guy Maddin, who appeared in person before it started.) There's a problem for Dr. Phil!

On my way to the Cinematheque I took a detour to see a rather small antiwar demo.

Chapter 21 of Jane Eyre is really sad, about the fates of the cousins she grew up with, illustrated above. [One puts duty first, the other pleasure, and they're both lost souls in different ways.  What's clever is the subtext:  Jane has developed an attraction to Rochester and faces a choice of whether to put duty or pleasure first.]

Found a Hardy Boys website.

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