…’It sparkles with original insights, wild ideas, erotic juices, prose poems, extraordinary characters, sermonettes, surprises and sacred monkey-shines’. If the liquid in the bottle actually is the secret essence of the universe, as some folks seem to think, it had better be discovered soon because it is leaking and there is only a drop or two left. The bottle is blue, very, very old and embossed with the image of a goat-horned god. A saga must have a hero and the hero of this one is a janitor with a missing bottle. Which is to say, it begins in the forests of ancient Bohemia and doesn’t conclude until nine o clock tonight (Paris time). It is like my very own ‘Happy Place’ in the world of books. Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins is one of my favourite novels of all time.It is a book I go back to often.
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