Went to Murphys´ again. There’s nothing like good healthy exercise with pleasant companions and amid an atmosphere tinged with culture. But Natalie and the tennis season are both departing, so I must look elsewhere for after-dinner recreation. My latest plan is to take a book, walk a few miles into the country and enjoy a read and fresh air. Am studying Ruskin’s ‘Cézanne’ at present. I enjoy every word of it. It is so mellow and has at the same time such a ring of true educated steel.
Went to a picture ‘Christus’. I find the theme impossible on the cinematograph. One is shocked to see Our Blessed Lord himself opposite us, portrayed by a fathomable character which we can justly criticise. The whole setting, to be reverential and impressive, should be in distant majestic tone, perhaps in an atmosphere such as that of the old Byzantine painting.
