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L. Debard and Aliette is a lovely story. Haunting. Reminds me of a Josh Ritter song.

Amazing!

Wow! So, this is fun. Not sure how this will play out, but brilliant concept and execution thus far. Reading The Ship of Theseus and staying focused on it is challenging though.

I loved my first two Boynes. This is awful and will be a "painfully finished." How insanely and unbelievably "naive" can one boy be? Gah!

Only 881 pages to go (stupid Bantam version)! Nothing to this. . .

Vesaas is a wonderful new discovery.

The water, which had spurted up here for a while, had fashioned stems and branches of ice, and small trees stuck up from the bottom among the large ones. There were things here too that could not be described as either the one or the other--but they belonged to such a place and one had to accept everything as it came. She stared wide-eyed into a strange fairy-tale.

[Mario] took citizens' kindness and cruelty the same way, with a kind of extra-inclined half-bow that mocked his own canted posture without pity or cringe."
p. 316
Loved this section on Mario. A very sweet soul.

Yeah, making progress. Oh, hey, what's that? Footnotes 110? An 18 page footnote you say? Sweet. Also, technically, as the notes are part of the book, the whole goes to 1079, and I have read 21 pages of notes . . . I am actually on p. 331.