FACTS: There are three women in his life. The first is J. He falls in love with her in his twenties. He has done poorly at university and barely gets his degree. There is no sign of his being great.

 

He had a right to that poem. Gretchen had been waiting all during summer school to hear him eulogize that, his, our, her lost world. Where is the Horse? Where is the horserider? Where is the giver of rings?