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Ten pages left. For all the talk CH. 18 (Penelope) gets, I think it's far from the best chapter so far... Maybe it's the lot of teenage boys swooning over Molly's onanistic nostalgia?

Ch. 10: Wandering Rocks, art by Roman Muradov. Favorite chapter so far! Loving Joyce.

Unlike Werther, for whom realities are shaped by his desires, Don Juan's desires are imperfectly satisfied by cold reality, as in ambition, avarice, and the other passions. Instead of losing himself in the bewitching reveries of crystallization his attitude is that of a general to the success of his tactics, and in brief he destroys love instead of enjoying it more than others, as is commonly believed.

Only in the world of Shakespeare are children engendered without mothers, and love engendered without acquaintance. This guy is a riot!

The next essay is entitled "Objections to Education for Women"... Oh boy.

Third read, and it's still a pleasure. The Fitzgerald translation is superb.

When seeking the ideal partner, it's important to remember: it's not the size of his library, it's what he can do with it.