story: Bullet in the Brain
author: Tobias Wolff
year: 1995
where: a cozy wooden room, 600 meters high in the mountains
note: a favorite!
a line: “He did not remember Professor Josephs telling his class how Athenian prisoners in Sicily had been released if they could recite Aeschylus, and then reciting Aeschylus himself, right there, in the Greek.”
Samantha Neugebauer 