Em-Bov

If Madame Bovary was alive today she would likely be first in line to join one of those Sex and the City tours of New York. Certainly she'd be a member of Oprah's book club. Wonder what she'd make of her own tale? Would she weep with approval at her own tragic demise? Or more likely grow impatient with the lengthy prose & return her copy to the bookshop in favor of some twilightian vampires.


Flaubert's masterpiece does contain one of literature's great quotes: "Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to while we long to make music that will melt the stars."