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There was a part where he is brushing pollen off ophelias dress. Seemed like such a perverse act for its time. The way he expressed that moment was so rich. A important moment i think. Says a lot about his characters character and moral values. Good scene.

yeah this was written by a french gay guy

Je me suis attaqué au roman le plus long et le plus expérimental du siècle j’ai hâte d’attaquer cette série culte de la littérature. J’ai commencé en ayant des attentes en tête qui se confirment aux quinze premières pages. Je dois le lire pour mon cours d’étude narrative. J’admets avoir hâte de l’analyse que le prof va nous apporter.

“He was obliged to acknowledge that now… he was no longer the same man, was no longer alone even— that a new person was there beside him, adhering to him, amalgamated w/him, a person whom he might have to treat w/circumspection, like a master or an illness. And yet, from the moment he had begun to feel that another, a fresh personality was thus conjoined w/his own, life had seemed somehow more interesting.”