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Something to remember the next time you refer to the Siamese twins in your life :

“We use the plural form, Olympia, whenever we refer to Electra and Iphigenia. We do not say “where is Elly and Iphy”, we say “where are Elly and Iphy”.

I’ve had this book for decades, before I knew who zweig was.
I started to read it a couple of times but stopped because I thought it would be more rewarding with a few Balzac novels in my brain. But now I think it’s better to know where the novelist is coming from when reading the books. His mother was a monster. Zweig says he’d rather have been a successful banker than a novelist. I doubt that.

I don’t know how data is edited here, but fair to say that book description isn’t accurate 😳