from Nemet (and Zayna) again

lux hominum
another cellphone drawing by m ball

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

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

Zayna and me hope you read the last we write about Tess, how she is so beautiful and how you cannot understand the book if you miss this. We have one other thing we think you and Trudy in heaven miss. The word is the same in your English and our Kristovian, autodidakt (from the Greek, “teach self”).

The novels of Thomas Hardy are full of these. There is Clym Yeobright in The Return of the Native, who will become a teacher. There is Elizabeth-Jane in The Mayor of Casterbridge. Gabriel Oak in Far from the Madding Crowd. Jude Fawley in his book. Here are two, Angel because he cannot go to Cambridge because he will not become a priest and Tess who will learn all that Angel can teach her if he will. But then she will learn wrong things because he is wrong about those things. The narrator may think he, Angel, is right, but he is wrong, the narrator.

It is another one: You cannot understand the book if you do not know this.

From Nemet (and Zayna)

12.01.20