Baron Montès de Montejanos is enraged. Carabine, courtesan, attempts to calm him:
Honoré de Balzac, Cousin Bette, trans. Kathleen Raine (New York: Modern Library, 2002).
I like Balzac’s aphoristic wit and his cultural commentary. But the people and plot of Cousin Bette — courtesans, libertines, and the maneuvering of property and sexual favors from person to person — are not my cup of coffee. Or cups, seeing as it’s Balzac.
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Balzac: Orlando in a flat
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I am enchanted with the phrase, "...tapping the Brazilian...". It conjures an almost infinite supply of images and suggestions, that I must take a walk to settle down again.
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