Status Updates From The Last Novel

Was it Eliot’s toilet I saw?
Inquired someone’s palindrome- after use of a bathroom at Faber and Faber.

Reading a book in translation:
Like gazing at a Flemish tapestry with the wrong side turned out, said Cervantes.

The short story by one Heinz von Lichberg, published in Berlin six years before Nabokov would live there for a decade and a half - about an older man’s obsession with a young girl.
- And entitled Lolita

Wow!

Remembering that on the Iliad, as rife with detailed violence as any war narrative ever written, not one captured Greek or Trojan is ever tortured.

I am hungry. I am cold. When I grow up I want to be a German, and then I shall no longer be hungry and cold. Wrote Jewish youngster in the Warsaw ghetto.

Next to the originator of a great sentence is the first quoter of it. Said Emerson.

At the height of his career, Richard Brinsley Sheridan had become the owner of the Drury Lane Theatre. And subsequently astonished everyone concerned by calmly drinking in nearby coffeehouse when it went up in flames: Surely a man may be allowed to take a glass of wine by his own fireside?

Sigmund Freud ran his household is such a rigidly patriarchal manner that his wife was literally the expected to have spread the toothpaste on his brush each morning.