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My edition has only 50-some-odd pages left!

Ah! A blast, for a certain group--as yet, for I'm only through the story of Enoch Soames. Some references which I'd like to remember were to the "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater" and "The Yellow Book" periodical, contributed to by Beardsley.

In my edition, I'm but five pages from the end of the book, but it's late and I like to finish books with a clear, fresh-to-the-day head.

Say, my parents watch a lot of TV; it's loud, I wish I could finishe this book faster, but it's nice to savor, but also, has such a pace! a lovely lovely pace, and character too.

I'm fairly moseying my way through this one, and for good reason. I don't like to eat more than one or two of Welty's stories a day; and I say it as a compliment. In particular, the last two I read, "Why I Live At The P.O." and "The Whistle" were, respectively, very entertaining, clever, and quite affecting.

If I read more than 40 pages at a time, I get drowsy.

I like it

Stopped like 4 pages short cuz Im sleepy🤤🤤🌜

There's a great part in the middle of this book where the tyrannical Prince of Otranto, Manfred, rants for 3-4 pages to a group of visiting knights on business from another lord, and knights stay silent and sigh and wait around until they can't take it anymore; that's to say, there's a great part in the middle of this book where I begun to think that many readers have taken Walpole's famed novel too seriously!;-)

This book certainly benefits from close reading and, when lost, consulting other translations. That being said; thus, Les Fleurs du Mal is a greater descent into hell than Allegheri's, or at least a more subtle. One wishes to swim around in this poems, warm and tar-ish, but is scared they might come out with acid burns.