Angel Clare (who's been reading too much Marx): "You were one woman; now you are another. I thought you were a child of nature, but it turns out you are the last in a line of degenerate aristocrats"--Tess
Saw Roman Polanski's Tess (of the D'Urbervilles) at the Cinematheque, for the second time. Nastassia Kinski is a bit too sophisticated for her peasant-girl role, but it's still terrific, one of the best films about Victorian England. It's visually stunning--I first saw it in 1981, but remembered many of the images: the dripping cheesecloths, the farm machines, the fox hunters in the mist, the ceiling dripping blood (that's the Polanski touch), the mounted policemen. It seems to have been very faithful to Thomas Hardy's novel, which I'll have to read someday. [Still haven't, alas.]
Dinner was KFC.
Read the Classics Illustrated comic of G.A. Henty's In Freedom's Cause. (It's a rare edition, one of the last they published.) The story is much the same as Braveheart but centered on a warring youth.
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