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“You changed everything to please me. Took down the curtains, rolled up the rugs, stored furniture, painted every stick and surface white—-I was in my stark, simple period. Now, I've lived so long in hotels I can't imagine caring about my surroundings. They're things to accept, like people, not to change.”

This short one is taking longer than anticipated: as I read along, I’m often confident that I’ve got a grasp on the threads of the numerous characters and hundreds of years worth of interweaving stories.

But then, mere paragraphs later, I lurch to a halt and begin to fear that, perhaps, I am not actually properly understanding any of it…

That said, much of it is still a riot to read. So, onwards I go.