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HUZZAH! FOR BONFIRE BONFIRE ITEMS K FOR SALE J MATCHBOXES, MUGS, PRINTS, CARDS etc. K THE TOM PAINE J PRINTING PRESS & GALLERY 151 High Street <strong>Lewes</strong>, opp. Bull House & Westgate Chapel Christmas Trees for Sale P.E. Underhay and Son est 1988 Market Gardeners Traditional Norway Spruce: Under 5ft £15 5ft - 6ft £20 6ft - 7ft £25 7ft - 9ft £30 9ft upwards £35 Buy from the grower. Cut to order. Super fresh. No needle-drop here. Some Nordman firs (non-drop) still available Open every weekend in December, 10am to dusk. Situated on B2124 between Laughton & Golden Cross between Park Lane & Broonham Lane before ‘Quik Loo Hire’. FRESH NEW LOOK AT RIVERSIDE Pop down to shop, stock up your fridge, come and browse or just grab a coffee.
COLUMN David Jarman DJ's PJs The 1957 film Woman in a Dressing Gown starred Yvonne Mitchell and Anthony Quayle as Amy and Jim (‘Jimbo’) Preston, a couple whose twenty-year-old marriage is starting to unravel. Jim is giving consideration to the competing charms of his siren secretary, played by Sylvia Sims. Stuck at home, Amy is increasingly unable to keep the show on the road: the flat tidy, the breakfast toast from being burnt, the dinner incinerated. An even greater concern is her wandering around all day in her dressing gown. When the film was rereleased in 2012 the Guardian critic claimed that the Russians had a word for the undiagnosed depression that is obviously afflicting Amy. It’s ‘halatnost’, literally ‘dressing gown-ness’. As I often potter around the house in my dressing gown to at least midday, in my own naught availing struggle with the household chores, this rather alarmed me. I consulted a Bulgarian friend who had worked in Moscow for seven years, and whose Russian was more than adequate. She confirmed that the word ‘halatnost’ did indeed derive from ‘halat’, meaning dressing gown. Historically it was associated with the laziness and carelessness of both landowners and civil servants. Since the 1840s it had gained, originally in literature and later in life, the suggestion of negligence. But she felt unable to endorse any suggested connotation of depression. In his new book on modern Russia, Peter Pomerantsev laments the architectural ravages being inflicted on pre Soviet experiment, Old Moscow. Streets with names like Pyatnitskaya: in English the Streetof-all-Fridays, ‘full of little two-storey, nineteenth century mini-mansions, leaning higgledypiggledy on each other like happy drunk friends singing on their way home to a warm bed’. He adds: ‘Back in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries St Petersburg was the capital, the city of power, regime, order. Moscow was a backwater, the holiday city where you could sleep in late and spend the day in your pyjamas’. And yet, Oblomov, the personification of ‘halatnost’ in Goncharov’s eponymous 1859 novel, rarely out of bed let alone his highly emblematic dressing gown, resides in St Petersburg. But, perhaps that’s the point. In his long essay on Venice which has recently been reissued, Javier Marias mentions that real Venetians avoid ‘anywhere that has been developed with tourists in mind.’ They are ‘not easy to spot; largely because they don’t go out very much. Entrenched behind their watermelongreen shutters, they watch the rest of the world - the periphery of the world - in their pyjamas and via their twenty TV channels’. Perhaps staying in your dressing gown is just a way of putting off the fag of getting dressed. In the Romanian Max Blecher’s sanatorium novel, Scarred Hearts, the hero recalls an Englishman who had committed suicide leaving a note that read ‘All this buttoning and unbuttoning’. Woman in a Dressing Gown is said to have done for dressing gowns what Psycho did for showers. That’s nonsense, but I fear Harvey Weinstein may have delivered its coup de grâce. 31
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