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MobileSuitLilah
@MobileSuitLilah

Clarice Lispector, known in Brazil as “Hurricane Clarice”, is one of Brazil’s and the 20th century’s most important authors, a woman who took inspiration from the modernists and pushed the Portuguese language past its breaking point to shape it into new, strange and groundbreaking forms.

But perhaps more importantly is that, unlike all those other woman authors who I think are frumpy and unattractive, Clarice Lispector was famously beautiful. And I would just like to say that I personally find her extremely hot and in fact if she was still alive I would absolutely walk out on my wife of 30 years and our 4 children and [continues for 5 more pages]


MobileSuitLilah
@MobileSuitLilah

Gregory Rabassa carrying his Clarice Lispector body pillow at the academic conference


kaybee
@kaybee

googling for pictures of Clarice, i did find myself thinking "damn she WAS hot tho"


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(Rabassa looking over the books at the publisher's table)

"So, uh, where's Artist Alley?"

(Leans forward, awkward, intense)

"Um... you... got any Nabokov wall scrolls under the table, by any chance?"