Enid Starkie: Flaubert is careless of his characters’ outward appearance; on one occasion he gives Emma brown eyes; on another deep black eyes; and on another blue eyes.
George Braithwaite (in Flaubert's Parrot): Hold my beer
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’it may be sporadic, but when there it is always intense’
On Flaubert’s Parrot, the futility and necessity of describing facial features, and how webby an amateur’s reading life progressively becomes