Here's a Car, Take my Kid in Trade

I found the most beautiful article for my presentation on Thursday. It's one of the most personal and incredible involvements in literature I've ever seen. The author explains his whole perspective on the structure and content of Mme. Bovary by describing, autobiographically, his love for Emma and their torrid relationship. This is what literary criticism should be, mildly objective and rational but over all PERSONAL. My thesis is slowly congealing, I've added the package of custard mix, now i just have to whisk slowly over low heat and spice the filling. If you haven't had a look at it yet I HIGHLY reccomend reading Mario Vargas Llosa's Las Travesuras de la Niña Mala or in its English version Confessions of a Bad Girl (trans. Edith Grossman). For those of you who have read Bovary you´ll be delighted at his engagement with the text and recreation of it. Idea for a novella: Rainy day in late march, a man and woman meet in a dingy laundromat, she asks to borrow his car to do some groceries, he says ok, she leaves him her 9 year old child to babysit while she´s gone....and never comes back. The guy ends up raising the kid, who for his life has a fear of washing machines, conquers himself, becomes a Maytag repairman and is very successful. One day he is called into the laundromat where he was originally abandoned and doesn´t realize it until he has a broken washing machine laid open: looking inside he sees the reflection of some meaningless sign above and behind him (advertising the virtues of oranges, for example). Being seized by a fear that he can´t quite place, he leaves and the next day discovers that he´s violently allergic to all citrus fruit. In a small restaurant he one day eats a baby spinach salad with wedges of grapefruit, and as his throat closes up and his body goes into anaphalactic shock, he asks himself why he didn't order a taco salad instead.... His 7 year old daughter is witness..... and from that day forth begins a wave of violent attacks on all fruit and vegetablemen who carry baby spinach.