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I get the impression Thomas Wolfe did a lot of beautiful prose and didn't have the heart to cut it out of his book when it didn't serve the story. Too long-winded. The passion and deep rumination isn't yet earned, and is being projected onto rather banal subjects in such a way as to cheapen the strength of the words.

I take issue with the notion of the protagonist's (author's?) that women are all, by their nature, emotionally and rationally different from men. It can be the nature of all partners in love to be jealous and greedy with the other's attention, devotion, and time; to be fanciful in their dreams and desires. Those tendencies are not reserved for any one sex. So, the book plays to sexist stereotypes.

What's wrong with him having coffee and a cigarette? He was in mourning.

On p. 83, unclear whether Camus means to say the jury was afraid of the protagonist or was bored and looking to be entertained by him. Both?

It's very good 😤😤😤