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Another reference to the title was made where the mentally disturbed brother's spirit or soul was said to have taken refuge in a bird perched on a nearby tree to where some disgruntled workers who were protesting were subduing him because he started throwing apples at them thinking they were gathered to attack him... This book is a collection of disparate vignettes of this sane brother's life with his crazy sibling

The way the French language is able to deliver such solid understanding to me and create vivid pictures of simple scenes always amazes me because this is like a language I acquired as at least a 7th or 8th in my life but I command it better than Afrikaans that I was taught in school.

It would seem I have read 10 pages since the last time I made an update on this book. Anyway, it was on page 83 that I realised that I have misgendered the narrator in the story. I thought they were female, thus the sister to the mentally disturbed brother, and when they had a spouse who was female I thought they were a sapphic couple and so I went on believing that I was reading that kind of storyline this that page