Status Updates From Les Ailes de la colombe

I've really realised that while Henry James is exactly my kind of genius, he isn't for the masses. I was thinking about how to explain the "plot" of what I've read so far and I realised ofc that would be absurd, but also in character study, it's not like I'm learning of types. In fact it's more the interpersonal interactions that really stand out. It's the subtlety of dialogue, the strain of emotion! Beautiful but...

"The vulgar little street, in this view, offered scant relief from the vulgar little room"

"Each time she turned in again, each time, in her impatience, she gave him up, it was to sound to a deeper depth, while she tasted the faint flat emanation of things, the failure of fortune and of honour"

like who tf writes like this!!

So happy to have got This cover!!!

Also just started this and immediately got bowled over by Henry James' prose!!! I feel like I've ascended to a higher plane.

Okay I see the vision, bring it home now..

this feels like i’m reading a dream (in a good way)

This is kicking my ass