In the second volume of this Journal, which will be called Morals Charge, I intend to report, describe and comment upon the festivals of an inner prison that I discover within me after going through the region of myself which I have called Spain.
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Note to Emily:
I think I can say with confidence that if you do not get this one, no one will.
If someone proves me wrong, so be it …
Clue: I know this is unfair, but really, I have to reiterate: This one’s for Emily who has memorized most of this author’s work.
Another clue: The clues to the title are in the text posted.
Can it be Wilde?
I thought that too Linus with the Morals Charge.. but I’m not sure.. Hemingway? (Journals and Spain?)
Ah, good call. What’s the last line of Moveable Feast? For that matter, how do we spell … ohfercryinoutloud, that’s why Google was invented. OK, I’m spelling it right. But that’s not the right book, doesn’t that end with some lovely statement about how life was poor and perfect?
Sounds good to me, Linus. But, we may need to ask whether we’re on the right track.
Here’s another clue:
This book was written in French. And … a famous existentialist author wrote a book about the author of THIS book.
That’s sure to give it away.
Not Hemingway then.. heh heh.
I think I know who the author is now, but I’ve only read one book of his (and the long short story St. Julian the Hospitaler, which gives away who I think it might be). He was arrested famously on a morals charge after that big book came out, so maybe that’s the one after all … but I’ll leave this for people who actually know.
I hate to keep harping on this, but Emily loves this sick perverted author, and will guess it immediately.
:)
I have a guess on the author, but never having read his stuff I can’t even begin to guess at a title.
It’s the homosexual French burglar/author. Damn, his name escapes me. There’s a flower in the title.
Jean Genet…Our Lady of the Flowers?
Argh. Shoulda had Genet. I even did “The Balcony” once.
It is Genet – but it ISN’T Our Lady of the Flowers.
A lot of the title is actually in the quote I posted.
Excellent teamwork, people.