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...schoolgirl, who dreamed in the convent of a mysterious East full of "sultans with long pipes, swooning under arbors in the arms of dancing girls . . . tigers . . . Tartar minarets on the horizon ... kneeling camels." But that was just the East that young Gustave, a dreamy, handsome, unpublished Norman author, a motherbound retarded adolescent of 27, went to see in 1849, the year before he began writing his novel...
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