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[d_aulnoy]

Today has been a day of reading about the salonieres, in fact and in fiction.  Delia Sherman's The Porcelain Dove remains as haunting as ever, but, as always, I find myself desperately wishing for the sequel of how Linotte finds Pompey: "And then what happens?" syndrome, I term it in my head.

Alas ....