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Title: Fantastic imagination
Review: Supposedly this is a quote: "Do you know the sum total of my ambition? It's to have an intelligent, well-read man shut himself up with my book for four hours and to give him an orgy of historical hashish. That's all I want." --GF, Jan 1860If this is accurate he has fulfilled his ambition, although it may take more than four hours to read. There is no doubt, however, that Flaubert provides that "orgy of historical hashish." What an incredible imagination this guy had (if perhaps a little too much adolescent male). It's worth reading for the catalog of fantastical descriptions of the people, places and practices he imagines in ancient Carthage. If I were a time traveller and this place existed as it is in Flaubert's account, what a place to visit!
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