by 54yo Iris Murdoch
characters 830,123
words 150,768
chapters 64?
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| Carpaccio's Dream of Saint Ursula |
🎬 P. Loxias
loxias = Apollo as ambiguous oracle
👨Bradley Pearson, 58yo retired taxman, author of three literary books
name coincidentally similar to VN's 1972 Hugh Person in Transparent Things?
💃 Christian Evansdale, Bradley's weathy widowed noxious ex (marriage lasted 5yrs)
🐻 Francis Marloe, Christian's broke brother, ex-medical
🛖 Patara, seaside cottage rental
📚Arnold Baffin, prolific popular novelist, Bradley's longtime friend/protégé
👩Rachel Baffin, his heavy housewife of 20+ years
👧Julian Baffin, their 20yo daughter
👜Priscilla Pearson Saxe, Bradley's materialistic 52yo sister
👞Roger Saxe, her successful husband
🤰 Marigold, Roger's 30yo pregnant mistress
👦 Oscar Belling, Julian's ex
(paragraph count)
O01(3): Editor's Foreword 🎬
O02(15): Bradley Pearson's Foreword
O03(0): Now follows Bradley Pearson's Story
O04(88): Part One-- It might be most
O05(4): I pause here to say
O06(248): Arnold stared
homme moyen sensuel = man of average appetites
O07: It was now 👨(🐻)👧
O08: My dear Arnold
O09: At this point
O10: I opened the door
O11: Perhaps at this point
O12: My mother was very
O13: Marriage is a curious
O14: The next thing was
O15: I was drinking
O16: I was at Christian's
O17: In the end Rachel
O18: Now at last there
O19: One of the many
O20: "He cut down my magnolia
O21: It is customary
O22: That evening Priscilla
O23: "Where's Arnold?"
O24: Somehow or other
O25: "He knows you're
O26: As I now approach
O27: The following morning
O28: Part Two What it was
O29: The reader, especially
O30: Hartbourne asked after
O31: "Guess what I've got
O32: The division of one
O33: The restaurant at the top
O34: The next morning of course
O35: My dear Bradley
O36: Julian was holding
O37: I slept, I suppose
TIM = time
O38: "You don't quite
O39: I stood under
O40: When we try
O41: "What happened?"
O42: The door of the flat
O43: Part Three She had so much
O44: "Look, Bradley
O45: The absolute yearnng
O46: The next day the mist
O47: "What ages you've been
O48: Later on she was
O49: "What made you
O50: I was deeply asleep
O51: I awoke to a grey
O52: "Wait, Brad
O53: The world is perhaps
O54: Of course I felt
O55: I shall now advance
O56: "How are you feeling
O57: "Wake up, wake up
O58: I paid the taxi
O59: Postscript by Bradley
O60: Postscript by Christian
O61: Postscript by Francis
O62: Postscript by Rachel
O63: Postscript by Julian
O64: Editor's Postscript
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