I asked her to sell me Judith and the works of Novalis. “ ‘You can keep them,’ she said. ‘Every time you come to see me you can take two books, but now pay attention to something much more important than literature. You must change your name. You must never return to the scene of the crime. You must break the chain. Do you understand?’ “ ‘A little,’ I said, although all I’d really understood, with great pleasure, was the offer of the books.
