在Youtube亂逛想看些衣香鬢影不用腦的英國古裝片，看得太多巴勒斯坦的慘事。看到George Eliot的《Daniel Deronda》，見片中女演員很美，就繼續看，看下去原來男主角是猶太人結局還去「東方」復國，真是囧。想不到George Eliot會寫一本這樣的小說。不過片中的「大反派」確實令人想起《Middlemarch》裡相近的角色。維基的文章很有點apologetic。
Movements of national unity and self-determination were gathering steam in Germany and Italy and were seen as progressive forces at odds with the reactionary, old regimes of empires such as those of Austria-Hungary and Russia. Eliot's enthusiasm for the Zionist cause should be understood in this context. The evidence suggests that her view was that of righting a historical injustice at a time when progressive elements viewed national liberation as a positive.
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同場加映150年後的殖民者︰
