Word: bouilhet
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Dates: during 1973-1973
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...down the Nile, shaved their heads and wore tarbooshes, sat up late at night smoking long Turkish pipes and comparing their notes and observations. They kept diaries and wrote letters home-chaste and respectful ones to Mme. Flaubert, wildly lubricious ones to a poor sex-starved friend named Bouilhet-and later Du Camp wrote a book about their travels. Out of these materials Francis Steegmuller has translated excerpts and strung them together with brief comments of his own to make a lively and intermittently hilarious narrative of a gawky young genius stumbling through the land of his dreams...
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