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262. “Total loss.” Grim foreshadowing.

I actually the Professor’s idea. Poor Pearl, double reprise. I should clarify I have 39 pages left in my copy.

Courtship rituals! YUCK! In spite of that, good pit-of-stomach/pacing sequence(s.)

Harried Hector.

Impeded oxygen renewal, special aortic enlargement — on my part.

Unsatisfactory, malicious auction. I like oddly specific descriptions of bric-a-brac an above average amount. Seems like retracting the offer and returning the money would’ve sufficed. Poor Pearl, reprised.

“…enjoyed more often in thought than in reality.” Isn’t it the truth.

I suppose this is that character every ‘serious’ novelist between 1930 and 1979 was required to have show up in a book; never at a loss for words, always puts in the last say at badinage, afforded about three sentences more per line than any other character. Sigh. ‘Course, could be misguided here.

Dim, invisible, but rapt audience. Since childhood, eh?