The twin themes of love and sewage are always present, as the title suggests - down to the smallest detail as when Fermina wishes she were able to empty a chamber pot over Dr Urbino when he serenades her with a grand piano. I'm still no further on with understanding the three perfumed crows (though the perfumed bit may be incidental - it's just that Urbino brushes past them and so takes on the smell of their "whorish perfume"). But then the whole thing fits the idea that everyone masks the smell of shit and death with anything they can . And even the author refers to the three crows in a cage as the strangest thing.
Hildebrande is a welcome, very erotic diversion, as she bathes naked with Fermina each day, and flirts with Urbino in the carriage when they are rescued from the carriage. Of course it is a sharply observed psychological moment - the thought of another in Urbino's affections immediately stimulates Fermina to allow her father to allow Urbino to visit her.
Like the way somethings are just thrown in as when Lorenzo Daza knocks on his daughters door at night, drunk, and simply says "We're ruined". No further explanation. Suspense!
Just read my first entry and realised that i'm getting into real momentum with this book , I like it after all.
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