Status Updates From Alien Hearts

Portrait of a fancy society lady and her suitors and hangers on. Amusing characterizations and generalizations in excellent flowing prose. Need to return to it more often.

آندره مات و مبهوت به او می‌نگریست و فکر می‌کرد اگر در آن لحظه در آغوشش بگیرد همان قدر وحشیانه خواهد بود که گویی باغچه‌ای شکفته را لگدمال کند..

ببینید چقدر ملموس توصیف می‌کنه
لعنتی خیلی خوب می‌نویسه

‏همه کسالت آورند
‏فقط آدم‌هایی که به دلم می‌نشینند تحمل پذیرند
‏فقط به این دلیل که به دلم می‌نشینند..

Madame de Burne felt herself specifically born to the role of a fetish, created for that mission assigned to women by nature -- to be worshipped and pursued, to triumph over men by beauty, by grace, by coquetry and charm. She was indeed a sort of human goddess, delicate, disdainful, and demanding, worshipped by men whose love enthroned and deified her, like so much incense.

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During her years of marriage, a longing for revenge may have germinated within her heart, an obscure need to pay all men back for what she had received from one of them, to be the stronger in her turn, to bend their wills, to search out their resistances, and to make them suffer too.

Toute ma compassion pour lui (un peu) mais ça devient légèrement lassant tout ça. Mais c'est joliment écrit donc ça rattrape. Mais pas incroyable non plus.

Très belle écriture mais je commence à me lasser de l'histoire.