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"A taste for the miniature was one aspect of an orderly spirit."

Beg to differ.

Look at that, the "great replacement" theory.

"Death Note Fags"
At least your ciggies aren't lying.

That's book one done: I, uh... I made the comparison with Evangelion: Neon Genesis before, and I feel it's still true, bar some details, of course.
I'll have to see once I finished the other books.

What in the Evangelion: Néon Genesis is going on?!

Spaaaaaaace!

"Tes yeux sont si profonds qu'on me penchant pour boire,
J'ai vu tous les soleils se mirer,
S'y jeter à mourir tous les desespérés.
Tes yeux sont si profonds que j'y perds la mémoire."
This verse would have been absolutely romantic... if it weren't for that huge error in the first line (I don't know if it's a translation error though).

"Toen er kort na de oorlog nog veel magnetische zeemijlen voor de kust lagen, werd zeevissers wel aangeraden om voor hun eigen veiligheid houten haken te gebruiken. De arme sukkel die dat advies serieus nam kreeg vervolgens de tip om die haken dan ook maar te beazen met houtwormen"
Pft.

"Mornin' y'all. Got any eight pound line?"
Points for immersion.

Finally, after 50 pages of sundry and miscellaneous introductions, I can get to the proper story.
Shockingly, Arduous Huxley was for eugenics. The idea became "unthinkable" for him after ww2, not because it implies a lot of weird ideas about the human species, but because the Germans at the time took it to places where it was found to end up (although I'm not sure he gave up on the idea in his 1946 intro).

Whilst struggling to understand what Hemingway means with "tight", the man has the audacity to pelt the reader several slurs.

"she left him for a miniature painter"

So, you're telling me there's a chance?

Shit hits the fan! Murder! Drama! Our protagonist is about to become a dad, precipitating events into chaos. Receiving a letter detailing his previous
affair, he decides that the only logical thing to do is to murder her.

Of course.

He missed.

Unsatisfied with the kind of stroboscopic relationship the protagonist has with his romantic interest, he decides to woo another woman... In order to make her jealous.

Classic.

"c'est donc toi!" (Says romantic interest n°2 after days of silence and animosity, as she hugs him with emotion)
When in the blurb they said she was intense, they sure described the character well. Even the politics, that every now and then take the fore (but do not necessarily reflect the author's position) are infinitely more intense than the first part of the book.

"ah, to feel love's keen sting" is a bit of an understatement.
I prefer the chapters in this book where the protagonists are (albeit comically) tormented by their insecurities and uncertainties. It paints a more realistic picture.

The edition I'm reading, the complete one, has 666 pages. I'm now at page 419.

So anyway, this went from mocking every Jane Austen novel to Mean Girls during the French Restauration (between both French Empires).