I am pretty sick of the stink in the house, being confined to two rooms upstairs, and eating fruit and V8. I got away a good bit yesterday, first to my study group, then to a movie by myself. "Argo" lives up to the hype. It really is funny, tense and surprising. Today I'm going out to breakfast with my friend and then shopping, and this afternoon a movie with another friend and then dinner. Tomorrow morning is the last coat on the floor, and hopefully, in the forseeable future I'll see my banished husband and dogs. It seems to be raining right now, though both newspapers said it would not. No chance, no percentage.
I watched "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" last night with Charles Laughton and Maureen O'Hara. It's a pretty gorgeous movie and interesting in terms of ideas. As a kid, I adored Victor Hugo and Alexandre Dumas. I read abridged versions of "Hunchback", "Les Miserables", "The Count of Monte Christo" and "The Man in the Iron Mask". I was destined to take French in high school, and my love for very dramatic French literature is equaled only by my love of Dickens. I love the political mixed in with romance and told from the point of view of the underclasses. I'm a revoluntionary by impulse, though tempered now with a huge dose of reality and cynicism. It's not that simple. Yesterday, in study group, we talked a bit about dualism, and I outgrew that world view quite a long time ago. Yet many are trapped in it. Read the political news. Okay, I admit I'm grumpy.
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