Jo’s Reviews > The Wings of the Dove > Status Update

“The drawing room of Europe” GREAT line.

“Plash” is my favorite turn-of-the-century verb and I’m going to be bringing it back into use.

Need Miss Rooney to sweep in and just write the throuple.

Henry James can’t write a dinner party scene to save his life.

Schrödinger’s Milly

“So crystal-clean the great empty cup of attention that he set between them on the table.” Ooh

“The elements melted together and seasoned the draught, the essence of which might have struck the girl as distilled into the small cup of iced coffee she had vaguely accepted from somebody, while a fuller flood somehow kept bearing her up— all the freshness of response of her young life, the freshness of the first and only prime.” Did not know they had iced coffee back then

“The sense was constant for her that their relation might have been afloat, like some island of the south, in a great warm sea that represented, for every conceivable chance, a margin, an outer sphere, of general emotion; and the effect of the occurrence of anything in particular was to make the sea of the island, the margin flood the text.” ok purr

Might as well call this book Our Mutual Friend

You can’t convince me that Mrs. Stringham isn’t a lesbian.