"She wrote in a friend's album that slicing toads was her hobby, doing fancy work a real misery, and amputating friends perfect happiness." (Woodress bio. 55)
"She wrote in a friend's album that slicing toads was her hobby, doing fancy work a real misery, and amputating friends perfect happiness." (Woodress bio. 55)
There's a nightmare scene in Cather's "A Lost Lady" that I can hardly bear to think about. It involves a woodpecker, a taxidermy kit, and a sadistic guy called Ivy Peters, known as "Poison Ivy." Horrible. Cather's novels, it bears saying, do not gloss over life's horrors.
"She wrote in a friend's album that slicing toads was her hobby, doing fancy work a real misery, and amputating friends perfect happiness." (Woodress bio. 55)
sorry <limbs> not friends
There's a nightmare scene in Cather's "A Lost Lady" that I can hardly bear to think about. It involves a woodpecker, a taxidermy kit, and a sadistic guy called Ivy Peters, known as "Poison Ivy." Horrible. Cather's novels, it bears saying, do not gloss over life's horrors.