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“We already are old. What happens is that you don’t feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it.”
Disappointed 无可奈何 uproar of this old narrator, feel the solitude of him, from falling in love since nine decades of life, but suddenly found that 单纯如玉 the one he dreamed of the sleeping beauty is no longer as delicate as he thought to be.

how dramatic it is, by describing the life of an old man, in the eye of omniscient. Created an old lonely old man,eager for love

“Sex is the consolation you have when you can’t have love.”

The twists the author illustrates is the true craftsman skill. Not in the same level of the past book I read “Once”.

More daily experience of this old man.
(有些单词不明白）

The end of chapter, after reading several others’ reviews. Found the loneliness of this unmarried old man, the urgencies of desire disappears only after seeing this innocent virgin falling asleep, delusional himself through all this.
Technique: description of outer sides of characters 渲染气氛

The reason I picked this book, is that the perspective is intriguing. From the view of a 90 year old, describing this not discussed in normal life field.
Plus it is Gabriel Garcia

The reason I picked this book, is that the perspective is intriguing. From the view of a 90 year old, describing this not discussed in normal life field.
Plus it is Gabriel Garcia

Easy to read and help with English.

The tone is similar to that Hemingway used. Calm, as an old man. Compared to another book “once” written by a younger writer in her 30s. This book is definitely comprised with deepness.