Which Reminds Me

Yes, that was strange. Why all this prattling about the fictional character of Claudine? The Claudine novels were written by Colette, a French author of a somewhat racy repute. During high school we were required to read one of the Claudine books, maybe it was Claudine at School, although I cannot remember very much about that. The French books that we read in Spanish translation were rather depressing. The spirit of a book sometimes is something that one does not want to wear permanently. Sometimes one prefers to cast aside these ill-fitting things as not worthy of further attention. They are just there to remind us that there is a darker side of things that perhaps serves as a warning or caution about not doing or saying anything more about Colette.