Flaubert's style is so dense.
Louis Armstrong's in town tonight, playing at the Pelican. Should we make it a night of the two Louis?
The absence of metaphor is so striking.
You sound like every pompous Sorbonne student I've ever eaten.
Should I do like you instead? Read the first ten pages of every book? Pass myself off as cultured?
Lestat de Lioncourt: Well, at least you're listening. I sit there thinking, 'Light yourself on fire, see if he would notice!'
[Talking over Lestat] Use my middling command of literary canon to impress some hapless human I'm gonna kill in a few hours anyway.
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