I had read it years ago, and I remembered that I liked it, and I knew bits of the plot, but after reading a book five years ago, you can't really relate the plot. While I was in Border's, I picked up another book by Tom Robbins, but when I got home, the urge to reread Jitterbug Perfume poked me. Anyway, I was walking through Border's with Amelia, and I was looking for books that were a bit denser than I had been used to - I wanted something meaty, and possibly, non-linear (now that I think about it, I think I picked this up after watching "The Candidate," the really sad episode of Lost from this season, and it finally struck me that, oh god, Lost was ending). oh, three weeks ago, and I had just finished reading Bound and Determined, and my good friend Sarah had pretty much poked me in the back and told me to read Decadent ("Alaina! There's a line where the dude says, and I quote, 'Fucking her ass, saving her life'! You HAVE TO READ THIS." - Sarah), and what else had I been reading? Oh, Big Sleep, and I had picked up a couple of other books but thrown them down again because oh god, the Book ADD. well, later today, as you'll read this, and bonus! it's sale markdown night!), so coherency may be an overstated goal right now. I'm also kinda tired (just finished my second 4-12 shift at work, number 3 is. “’Tis true, thou do have magic of thine own, the gods have always known that, known it even better than thee,” Pan says (146).It's taken me just about two days two hours (if I hadn't spread it out over two days) to compile all of the quotes I'd underlined and dogeared during the read, and now, I'm almost struggling to coalesce my thoughts into words that can be understood.' Pan is amazed by Kudra’s scents, which only temporarily mask his signature muskiness. They dally together in coital bliss (though a mesmerized Alobar mildly protests Kudra’s coupling with Pan).
In Greece, the couple visits Pan and the nymphs. They see the city burn behind them as they leave (possibly in the historically documented Sack of Constantinople in 1204). Alobar notes, “We are now aware that a display of undue longevity created problems in a community conditioned to age and die” (139).
For many years they run a successful spice business in Constantinople, until their supernatural youthfulness gets them run out of the city. Kudra is impatient to experience life, however, and convinces Alobar to set off with her.
They live for seven years in the caves of the Bandaloop, learning the secrets of immortality from the “vibrations” within the caves.
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