story: A Simple Heart

author: Gustave Flaubert

year: 1877

where:  home, golden chaise

note: It is fun to read this the same week as reading Orwell’s The Road to Wigan Pier and revisiting The Communist Manifesto for work.

a line: “It was a bull, which had been hidden by the fog. He came towards the two women. Madame Aubain was going to run.”