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Man With the Golden Brain by Alphonse Daudet
This is totally bizarre and worth keeping the collection for. The guy apparently has golden brain matter, which he uses to buy things. He squanders, he spends, he falls in love, he spends on her, they break up, and then he spends the last of his brain matter at a shop in sort of a suicide. Weird. -
Review of The Venus of Braniza by Guy De Maupassant
"Wives of the Jewish philosophers are, as a rule, ugly or possess some bodily defect." I found this hilarious. The story is well written, and another reason why I wanted to keep the collection. The guy's wife is uncharacteristically beautiful, and she asks him a question about the conditions in which the Messiah would arrive. The guy says the ( Read more... ) -
Review of The Courageous Hunchback Woman by Honore De Balzac
A woman witnesses a murder, feigns ignorance, and escapes the killers, then goes home, pretending nothing ever happened. But then the ghost haunts her, and she tells the sheriff. The style is like the Teeny Tiny Woman ("Give me my bone!"), sort of a comedic and weird little horror story. -
Earth and All Starships (80% finished proofreading)
I'm now at page 160, and I did some drastic cuts so that it's only a 992 KB file. I haven't previewed it in the browser, but I think it's got to be down to at least 200 pages or less.
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Review of Scheherazade the Widow by Henri De Regnier
This is the most evil depiction of Scheherazade I've ever seen. The woman cuts off the ears of storytellers that don't please her. But I don't mind. I like how the author demonizes her, and makes her sultan seem not so bad by comparison. Scheherazade is depicted as being an unproductive, idle, capricious governess, which seems to me a ( Read more... )
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