Saturday, September 5, 2020

L: Bruno's Dream (1969)

 chapters: 32

characters: 515,905

words: 92,634

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xysticus face

Oxyptila face


Cape Triangular stamps





Albion press




👴Bruno Greensleave, 80yo+, spider-lover 🕷️, stamp collection worth £20K🖃

👰Janie, Bruno's wife, deceased

Maureen, his former mistress

🧹Adelaide de Crecy, his servant (Proust's Odette Swann was born a de Crécy)

🤡 Danby Odell, 'contingent' son-in-law

👨‍⚕️Nigel Boase, Adelaide's cousin, Bruno's 'nurse'

🎨Will Boase, Nigel's fraternal twin, aspiring artist/photographer

Gwen Odell, Bruno's daughter, deceased, married Danby, studied Frege

〽️Miles Greensleave, Bruno's estranged 35yo son, aspiring poet, Kempsford Gardens

🗽Parvati, Miles' deceased wife (married when both were 22yo)

💃Diana Watkin Greensleave, 28yo wife of Miles

👧 Lisa Watkin, Diana's younger sister, communist

Gater and Greensleave, Bruno's printing works

George Greensleave, Bruno's deceased father

🤪Auntie, Nigel and Will's senile patron

Gaskin, printer


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gin and French = cocktail
Vladimir Pook ?= Nabokov (butterflies) pook = rule? 

soma sema = Latin: body equals tomb

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clerihew = AABB
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