Heart the Lover

by Lily King

The eggs don’t stick, and cook quickly in nice chunks, not pebbly like they get in the cheap frying pan on Pye Street.

He’s translating Ovid back into Latin, a poem called ‘Iphis and Ianthe’ from Metamorphoses. I looked down at my paperback.

Henry James, upon hearing of the writer Constance Fenimore Woolson’s suicide, went directly to her apartment in Venice, destroyed his many letters to her, and tried to drown her dresses

I say the structure of War and Peace was no great shakes, and he breaks the book down for me section by section to show how Tolstoy was reconceiving both The Iliad and The Aeneid to build his masterpiece.

The one about the musicians? Loved it.’

We discuss the options:

Strange that the narrator and another college friend are acting as next of kin.