| 1 | Not Balzac. Not Flaubert. | |
| 2 | Don't tell me about these complicated sentences from Balzac's short story. | |
| 3 | Is it Balzac the author professing "literary" ideas on femininity? | |
| 4 | Is it Balzac the individual, furnished by his personal experience with a philosophy of Woman? | |
| 5 | I couldn' t write anything that measured up to Dostoyevsky or Balzac, of course, but I told myself it didn' t matter. |