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Annotation?

In "The Painted Bird" (Jerzy Kosinski, 1966:43): "It was said that Ludmilla lived with this huge dog as with a man. Others said that someday she would give birth to children whose bodies would be covered with canine hair and who would have lupine ears and four paws, and that these monsters would live somewhere in the forest."  Quoted by by David K. Danow in "The Spirit of Carnival: Magical Realism and the Grotesque" (2004) found on Google Books. Like TP he seems to spell Ludmilla with two "l"s, whereas in "The Painted Bird" it is spelled Ludmila. If this is more than a coincidence, then it looks like a rescue job. The story of Ludmila in "The Painted Bird" is pretty harsh.

:Wonderful! Why not put it in [[Book:Reaper Man/Annotations]]? --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] 00:13, 10 August 2009 (UTC)