Status Updates From The Sea, the Sea

third visitor rosina has arrived. (are they doing this in sync to mess with him?) she reminds him that he said if he married anyone he said it would be her and he knows perfectly well this is true but says "I can't remember I must have been drunk" which is making me all kinds of furious. this guy is tolerable alone but put him with other people and he's awful

Es la segunda novela de Iris Murdoch que leo, la primera fue Una Cabeza Cercenada y me fascinó. Esta me está costando un poco pero siento que valdrá la pena. Abordo con curiosidad y desconfianza a los protagonistas de las novelas de Murdoch y eso me encanta de su manera de escribir.

skipped the introduction. it was boring until the letter from lizzie. ooh! his response to it floored me. how he talks about her! i went from thinking, oh here's a man who has maybe lived alone too long and developed some quirks (but is harmless) to thinking, sir you are a massive TOOL. i'm rivetted now