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But how can we hold such a tiny thing against her? Don't we all of us slay each other, day in, day out, hour after hour, with our exquisite smiles and shattering indifference, our lavish displays of wealth that the more impoverished members of society can only lower their eyes before?
— Oct 01, 2025 04:19AM
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How could he fail to be alert to the slightest of her intonations and remarks! When you see someone you love continually weighing in secret, like gleaming copper weights on the pan of a golden scale, on one side her life, on the other her death, and you see her stooping to examine precisely on which side it tips - how can you help but peer over her shoulder?
— Sep 27, 2025 02:46AM
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Hiking around with someone who doesn't look at things as you do is always interesting. Fanny moves through the landscape not in order to read there like the Narrator, but to live. The open sky and the rolling meadows lend themselves to the movement of her thoughts, whereas for the Narrator everything falls still so that he can savor - just savor -down to the tiniest detail - as a happy expanse of untamed countryside.
— Sep 22, 2025 09:18AM
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Perhaps we all have lives the person closest to us knows nothing of? And perhaps this is what really attracts us to each other: the presence of this secret life which, from time to time, is revealed to us through a gleaming, narrow slit. The vision is fleeting and comes as a complete surprise; all our convictions are shaken because, however observant we might be, we hadn’t noticed a thing
— Sep 18, 2025 02:04AM
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Oct 01, 2025 06:07AM
Oddly, I just picked up a copy of this yesterday.
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Jeff wrote: "Oddly, I just picked up a copy of this yesterday."it Jeff, are you reading a paper copy or a digital one? I read it first in French (book) and a second time in the English translation (digital copy), and some pages and even an entire chapter is missing in the digital copy (it looks a mistake and not a deliberate cut..). A fine novel, even more so the second time round (or my appreciation might be coloured by knowing more now on the genesis of this book and its background). I hope it will resonate with you as well...
Paper copy (in English). Looking forward to reading it.
