GR: tulips (a reigning madness of the time), p. 108

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Apologies if mentioned earlier; I noticed it for the first time.

"At home, the brother skimmed the letters, some crisp, some sea-stained or
faded, spanning years, delivered all at once-understanding very little of
it, only anxious to spend the day, as usual, in the gardens and greenhouse
with his tulips (a reigning madness of the time), especially one new variety
named for his current mistress: blood-red, finely tattooed in purple." (GR,
Part One, Episode 14, p. 108)

Hendrik Van der Groov reads Frans's letters during the first capitalistic
bubble,  the  Tulip Mania which reigned the Dutch Republic between 1634 and
1637.

Michel.

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