Status Updates From Orlando: eine Biographie

re-reading Orlando because i loved it so much in first year!! reading the introduction at the momes but think i might benefit from some background knowledge for a more fruitful and insightful reading 😛

just marking where i’m currently at in the intro : xxxiv. never ever skipping the intros after Madonna lol they’re so insightful 😛😛😛😛

c’est interminable que qqn me libère pitié

It may have been her love of poetry that was to blame for making Orlando lose her shopping list and start home without the sardines

- which proves tgat if you want to have your sardines and eat them, that you are best off skipping the poetry, also that sardines are the most literary of all fish.

Since she is a woman, & a beautiful woman, & a woman in the prime of life

- at this point in the narrative she is over 300 years old which suggests that Jean Brody was amazingly premature in reaching her prime