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Saturday, October 06, 2007
review envy
“A policeman, Maurice Marullas, has blown out his brains. Let’s save the name of this honest man from being forgotten.”
LI recommends that you run at link speed to Julian Barnes’ LRB essay/review of Novels in Three Lines by Félix Fénéon, translated by Luc Santé. This is such a good review that I turned several colors while reading it – green, from envy, white, from the painful thought that I would never write a review this good, and blue – well, because that is my normal color. I am, after all, Krishna. Luckily, you will notice that at least the first sentence doesn't quite work. This single blot has saved me the bother of following M. Maraullas.
Anyway, if you don’t read it, you are a stinking pig.
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