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Winter has arrived …

06 Sunday Dec 2020

Posted by michelinewalker in Christmas, Sharing

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Carl Larsson (Wikipedia)

My post disappeared. It was my second post on L’Impromptu de Versailles. I cannot explain what happened. Inserting the original French quotations is somewhat difficult because I have to use a PDF version. It is not the copy you see. The PDF version of Molière’s play can be copied easily. However, copying Henri van Laun’s is a challenge. So, a post on Molière can take a full week to build. Building is the correct word.

No I cannot rebuild it today. I copied the text in Word, but something happened. The copy lacks final paragraphs.

It is not as rich a text as the Critique de l’École de femmes, but it is both a théâtre dans le théâtre (a play within a play, in the broadest acceptation of the word) and a mise en abyme. The Russian dolls nestled one inside another is a form of mise en abyme. But if there are two mirrors, one on each side of an object, the result is an eternal abyss, a kaleidoscope. We are about to read La Princesse de Clèves. It contains stories that could be considered mises en abyme.

I’m thinking of Christmas. The Premier wanted to wait until 11 December before allowing or cancelling Christmas, but it has already been cancelled for all red areas of the province. It’s much too dangerous.

I miss my Nova Scotia home. Life is humbler now, and I left friends behind.

I wish all of you the very best. 💕

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6 December 2020
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