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Chapter 88, what are you trying to do to me? What a way to make me hurt for characters I'd really only, as of that point, come to know through other characters and the styling of their apartment... And to frame it all the way he did... the daughter's discovery... Perec has really started to glisten in these later pages. Pretty near the end now. I'm hoping it'll be as satisfying as I know it could be.

Non frustra vixi. Perec is insane. Something tells me he'd be an insufferable dinner guest, but his ability to pull an intricately detailed story out of nowhere is pretty impressive. The fake Mephistopheles was quite a little tale. At times this really does seem like it's just a collection of short stories, but every once in a while I feel like see how they connect to the larger narrative. Other times is very hard.

Really good so far, and feels like it's getting better. It's one of those books where people will probably say, "it could be much shorter"... but I don't know. I'm sure it could be, if you only care about the plot, but if you care about the life of it, the characters, and their lives, the lives of their possessions, their rooms, their building, it could be even longer. Chapter 51 is unlike anything I've seen before.