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The quotes, "that it is a corpse that loves you and adores you and will never, never leave you!" and
"Why did you want to see me? Oh, mad Christine, who wanted to see me! when my own father never saw me and when my mother, so as not to see me, made me a present of my first mask!" have me also feeling for Erik, like Christine. When he utters such words, how else are you to act?

There was no need to turn a kiss between Raoul and Christine into an incestuous descriptive line.

Raoul is actually so obsessed with Christine that they wrote the song Obsessica about him hundreds of years later.

"two hundred kilos on the head of a concierge. That was her sole epitaph" I have to admit I found that rather funny. It is supposed to be showing how people's lives get reduced to something blunt and unfeeling by the media but I read it as dark comedy.

"in the same gay tone" seeing the repeated uses of gay to mean happy reminds me how old this book actually is.