"You can have your cake and eat it; the only trouble is, you get fat"

If there were one thing that jumped out at me the most in the last reading was the quote on pg 87 where Barnes says "You can have your cake and eat it; the only trouble is, you get fat". I literally burst out laughing at the truth behind it. This is one point in which Flaubert's voice is clearly projected through Barnes narrative. This is a very realistic quote in which we get a new twist on a classic quote, of you can't have your cake and eat it too. What Barnes is doing is taking a Flaubertian (?) take on it saying yes you can have both but it becomes a double edged sword. That either way in the end something bad is bound happen and life isn't always going to be "peechy". It takes such a realistic approach, in which we finally see Flaubert's voice come in clear and strong. This is almost refreshing for it is considered a type of biography on Flaubert but Barnes and his character Geoffrey Braithwaite seemed to counteract and go against all the Flaubert's idea, so to finally see a realistic take was a relief.