主题：【阅读笔记】读简人（一） -- 意闲

《费加罗婚礼》里头的Cavatina。BBC的经典名著改编系列，都拍得精致，表演也细腻，不会如安妮·海瑟薇出演的简·奥斯汀，半夜醒来，满屋子狂乱地找两支蜡烛来写作----英伦风格，总以不失衡为上。

George Eliot的文笔比剧集更值得咀嚼，这小说的开篇：

Men can do nothing without the make-believe of a beginning. Even science, the strict measurer, is obliged to start with a make-believe unit, and must fix on a point in the star's unceasing journey when his sidereal clock shall pretend that time is at Nought.

Daniel初见Gwendolen，作者的笔触带我们进入Daniel被美打动的迷思：

Was she beautiful or not beautiful? and what was the secret of form or expression which gave the dynamic quality to her glance? Was the good or the evil genius dominant in those beams? Probably the evil; else why was the effect that of unrest rather than of undisturbed charm? Why was the wish to look again felt as coercion and not as a longing in which the whole being consents? ...............