zozo’s Reviews > Orlando > Status Update

i have switched to the audio book and i paraphrase: men use women as if grown up children

him and her/her and him in every lifetime

trying to get over this reading slump (bc i have been watching plenty) and setting the goal to finish Orlando this week (before my trip!)

With the superstition of a lover, Orland had made out that it was on the sixth stroke that she would come … The passionate and feeling heart of Orlando knew the truth … The whole world seemed to ring with the news of her deceit and his derision … He was bitten by a swarm of snakes, each more poisonous than the last … (At last) The river had gained its freedom in the night.

still some passages to highlight in the last few pages, the return to existentialism continues