Dec 24, 2009

The Admirer | The Admirer

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Elizabeth Abigail de Sollar writes to the narrator to express her admiration for his books. Then she calls to arrange a meeting. In the course of the conversation, he mentions his fondness for Thomas Hardy; she soon sends him a beautifully bound set of Hardy's works. Finally, after a number of delays, she arrives at the narrator's West Side Manhattan apartment.

As she had in her letter, Elizabeth tells the narrator how much she likes his writing. She also gives him another present, a Ouija board, because he seems interested in the occult.

He asks about...

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