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Camille Bordas Reads Saul Bellow

The New Yorker: Fiction

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Love Is Not Extricable From Money

The story is funny to me. There's a lot of humor in there. Anda, i mean, as you said, the common refrain in his thoughts is money and moneys at the heart of his frustration with joan. But it's also, you know, he seems to see every relationship through this financial lens. Love is not extricable from money for him, because he loves joan, but she costs him so me.

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