“One way of legitimising coincidences, of course, is to call them ironies. That”
― Flaubert's Parrot
― Flaubert's Parrot
“But Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope. (Moby Dick; Chap 7 p36)”
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“I’d ban coincidences, if I were a dictator of fiction. Well, perhaps not entirely. Coincidences would be permitted in the picaresque; that’s where they belong. Go on, take them: let”
― Flaubert's Parrot
― Flaubert's Parrot
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