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I'm re-reading this to teach it in my seminar, and as was the case with G.H., I'm enjoying immensely the process of reading it very slowly, taking notes along the way. Today as I read, it occurred to me that Lispector's prose is much like Thelonious Monk's music - always off-balanced, uncannily out of sync, but never quite tipping over and falling down; and the drunken teetering becomes a dancing all its own.