The Inventory
This is the first meticulous and encyclopedic passage we’ve seen so far in Dream of the Red Chamber. There are more to come, and this sort of thing reminds me of some of the oddly specific passages in Les Misérables by Victor Hugo.
This is the first meticulous and encyclopedic passage we’ve seen so far in Dream of the Red Chamber. There are more to come, and this sort of thing reminds me of some of the oddly specific passages in Les Misérables by Victor Hugo.
