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user-inactivated  ·  3898 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 2666: Part I

I'm not far yet so I'll probably update this, but I want to save phrases periodically because this is such an incredible story.

Try

    hadn't prevented him from beginning a book on Archimboldi, a book that might be the grand Archimboldian opus, the pilot fish that would swim for a long time beside the great black shark of the German's oeuvre

on for size.

EDIT: and I love the bit where he catalogues which words were said by which person and how many times during the phone call.