Getting there.
Life is getting more complex and potentially ridiculous by the moment.
Currently reading: The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. I laughed when even the other English student teachers gaped over the size of this book; I hadn't even thought anything of it. I think more people would read it if they saw what it said in the intro:
there are not many...books that involve a female serial poisoner, two cases of infanticide, a stabbing and three suicides; an extended scene of torture and execution; drug-induced sexual fantasies, illegitimacy, transvestism and lesbianism; a display of the author's classical learning, and his knowledge of modern European history, the customs and diets of the Italians, the effects of hashish, and so on...
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