Saturday, October 09, 2004

 

Pickled

This quotation occurs in Julian Barnes' novel Flaubert's Parrot:
Me and my books, in the same apartment. Like a gherkin in its vinegar.
Many of the quotations in that novel are actually Flaubert's own words, and this one has a Flaubertian ring to it, but I can't find the original in Flaubert himself. Googling "cornichon" etc. did no good.

# posted by Michael Gilleland @ 4:18 AM


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