Wednesday, July 23, 2025

July 17, 2010

"Anna and I are above love"--The Cherry Orchard

"You've been expelled from university twice.  Students are supposed to be clever, not smart"--ibid.


    Dreamed of a non-existent Finnish war correspondent getting drunk on the radio while reporting on the Russo-Finnish War in a 1940 Tintin adventure; telling Frank DeJongh [whom I knew from my opera group] about it (he's Dutch-Canadian, not Finnish!); discussing the English people in India with experts.


    This weekend is the noisy Salsa on St. Clair, so the parents and I went to see Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard at the Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake.  On the way there we stopped at a big book warehouse in St. Catherines and bought a few books.


    It took a while to find the theatre, which was hidden behind the old courthouse.  Wonderful play.


    On the way back we had dinner at a huge Mandarin restaurant in St. Catherines.

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