Quote of the Day . Travel . TURN Washington's Spies
“The people in this house seemed to be quite savage and rude”
On April 14, 2023 by trappedinthe18thAfter riding ten miles thro’ woods and marshes, in which we were pestered with mosquitoes, we arrived at eight o’clock at night at one Brewster’s, where we put up for all night, and in this house we could get nothing either to eat or drink, and so were obliged to go to bed fasting or
Quote of the Day
A subject of importance, and of no small embarrassment
On April 3, 2023 by trappedinthe18thDear Sir, I am now set down to write to you on a subject of importance, and of no small embarrassment to me. My son – in – law and ward, Mr. Custis, has, as I have been informed, paid his addresses to your second daughter, and, having made some progress in her affections, has
Films . French Revolution
Rewatching Andrzej Wajda’s Danton (1983)
On April 2, 2023 by trappedinthe18thThere is something mesmerizing in the way, how most of the characters of Andrzej Wajda’s Danton (1983) look like they’re on the brink of a mental breakdown. Just look at Antoine de Saint-Just (Bogusław Linda), how he leans himself to the wall in his first scene with Maximilien Robespierre (Wojciech Pszoniak), saying he had no