secretly embedded in its opening line. As if a book were a long and unclasped belt, with the first chapter at the buckle and the last page the end tip, an extended supple thing she could bend and wrap around the waist of her mind, curved, fastened, solid enough to stay. Endings morphed into beginnings and new meanings were revealed. King Lear, raised from the dead, was haughty again, gathering his three daughters, responding to betrayals by returning for more. Dante, after seeing everything, returns to the lip of the Inferno and still feels its pull. Don Quixote dies and then promptly
