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Gemini (1998) - Simon - 03-07-2026
Jean and Paul are identical twins. Outsiders, even their parents, cannot tell them apart, and call them Jean-Paul. The mysterious bond between them excludes all others; they speak their own language; they are one perfectly harmonious unit; they are, in all innocence, lovers.
For Paul, this unity is paradise, but as they grow up Jean rebels against it. He takes a mistress and deserts his brother, but Paul sets out to follow him in a pilgrimage that leads all around the world, through places that reflect their separation--the mirrored halls of Venice, the Zen gardens of Japan, the newly divided city of Berlin. The exquisite love story of Jean-Paul is set against the ugliness and pain of human existence. " Gemini" is a novel of extraordinary proportions, intricate images, and profound thought, in which Michel Tournier tells his fascinating story with an irresistible humor.
Zitat:This conversion has taken me quite some time. My original scans were of good quality (441 JPG images = 491 MB), but the ABBYYFineReader 12 OCR conversion was of poor initial quality. Maybe I should have done the OCR again. As I began to edit in Sigil I found there were so many OCR errors, it was going to be a very slow process. So I saved a Rich Text Format version from ABBYYFineReader, opened it in Microsoft Word, then used the spelling and grammar check facilities in MS Word to edit the document. This was much faster than using Sigil, because of the large number of OCR errors. Then I saved the corrected version as a text file to ensure it did not contain any problematic MS Word code.
Having already set up the ebook file structure in Sigil, with a separate .html file for each chapter, I opened the corrected text file in 'Notepad' and copied and pasted the text of each chapter from Notepad into Sigil. From then onwards, the process did not take too much time. There were some small errors to fix: accented characters, italicised text, some common spelling and punctuation errors etc.