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I Will Survive: “But as I watched John…I understood that Peggy had every reason to feel betrayed. Because when she looked…at the figure of her husband on his secret outing, what she saw was an image of adulterer joy. A joy that not only existed in her absence, but seemed to require it.”

Hasta Luego: “…what I found myself hoping, what I found myself almost praying for, was that despite all my flaws, when the time came, as it surely would, my wife would be willing to fight for me as hard as Jennifer had fought for her husband.”

Through “The Line” and “The Ballad of Timothy Touchett” liked the first one a lot felt like I had a clear read on the ideas Towles was toying with. Much less so with the second.