story: “Bullet in the Brain”
author: Tobias Wolff
year: 1995
where: Aspen
note: Reread! Breathtaking.
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.”
theme(s): Society, Memory, Death, Joy
samantha Neugebauer 