Flaubert's Parrot
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Medicine then must have been such an exciting, desperate, violent business; nowadays it is all pills and bureaucracy.
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How submerged does a reference have to be before it drowns?
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Words came easily to Flaubert; but he also saw the underlying inadequacy of the Word. Remember his sad definition from Madame Bovary: ‘Language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.’
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Flaubert's Parrot is a fantastically witty dissection of Gustave Flaubert.
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Yes, I’m enjoying every juicy bit of it.