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128 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1983
Oh, the begonias, oh, how I gazed upon the begonias and thought of Richard, Oh, the begonias. Oh Richard. Oh, how the begonias made me think of Richard. etc.It's just a lot of that, waffle and whimsy, as she flounces around Europe like an enchanted forest elf lost in her own internal reflections and solipsistic arousal. I really do hate these kinds of books, I hate this kind of writing, whatever it might be called. I was reminded of Aqua Viva by Lispector and all her myopic, saccharine prose dripping with earnest and cringe-worthy meditations which are obscure and vague, ethereal and meandering, but always doing their best to seem profound or poetic. It's just awful, just immense drivel.