from Nemet (and Zayna)

 from Nemet (and Zayna) 
more on Tess of the d’Urbervilles

To Ted (crabbiolio@gmail.com)
From Nemet (NemetN006@Kmail.nat) :

Thank you that you are writing about Tess of the d’Urbervilles, and Trudy, but. It is not that you are wrong in what you write to the other, but Zayna and me think you miss the main point. It is that Tess is so beautiful even her young girl friends must see it is so.

The novels of Thomas Hardy are full of women of capturing beauty. There is Eustacia Vye in The Return of the Native, who has two men in love with her. There is Bathsheba Everdene in Far from the Madding Crowd, who has three men in love with her. And there are others maybe, but there is none so beautiful as Tess. No man cannot desire her, and no woman cannot understand why the man she want desire Tess first instead. In the book.

You cannot understand the book if you do not know this.

From Nemet (and Zayna)

11.27.20

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Background: Nemet’s previous email is here. Our Kristovia adventure – mine and Roz’s – begins here. We meet Nemet and Zayna, here; and we attend his photography exhibit, here.