slow

Slow to realize that Ursula, in blindness, is clairvoyant like Tiresias--blind seer. Slow to realize that Amaranta weaving her own shroud and unweaving (is it a word?) at night (perhaps) in search of solitude is similar to Penelope weaving and unweaving shroud for O's father.

Allusions. Illusions.

Enjoying reading. Marquez tells a good story.

But the scholar of literature is present in Friday mother, somewhere.

What else have I missed?