I wasn't there but I could feel it when reading your poem.

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• Somehow the gold digger in my poem reminds me of Zola's Nana -藍靈- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/27/2024 postreply 11:51:20

• Zola put Nana front and center of the tragic -藍靈- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/27/2024 postreply 11:53:14

• ending days of Napoleon III's empire. Your thoughts? -藍靈- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/27/2024 postreply 11:56:44

• O dear! I wasn't a literature major. That said, I happen to -renqiulan- ♂ (0 bytes) () 01/27/2024 postreply 12:02:57

• have read Nana. I think Zola didn’t do much justice to his -renqiulan- ♂ (0 bytes) () 01/27/2024 postreply 12:06:04

• protagonist. Yes, Nana's "profession" wasn't exactly -renqiulan- ♂ (0 bytes) () 01/27/2024 postreply 12:09:05

• enviable. But then Nana had to make a living when eking out -renqiulan- ♂ (0 bytes) () 01/27/2024 postreply 12:11:41

• an existence was anything but easy. Zola might want to paint -renqiulan- ♂ (0 bytes) () 01/27/2024 postreply 12:14:38

• a French equivalent of the Byzantine empire in its twilight. -renqiulan- ♂ (0 bytes) () 01/27/2024 postreply 12:18:50

• Zola was moralistic to a fault, which is why Nana the novel -renqiulan- ♂ (0 bytes) () 01/27/2024 postreply 12:30:12

• is so faulty. -renqiulan- ♂ (0 bytes) () 01/27/2024 postreply 12:30:59

• Thank you, renqiulan, for your thoughts! -藍靈- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/27/2024 postreply 18:45:11