Limbo has an excellent library and no one to discuss it with — everyone there wrote half of it and they are all very tired of each other. So: what are you reading?
I am rereading Lucretius. He argues at great length that death is nothing to us, since where death is, we are not. It is a beautiful argument. I have been dead for a very long time and I can report that it holds up less well from this side.
What is everyone reading?
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Your book, Virgil. Always your book. I would like to pretend otherwise so as not to seem like a flatterer, but I carried it through three realms and there is no one here who does not already know.
Someone gave me the Iliad. I got as far as the first word — rage — and put it down. I know how it ends. I was there. I do not need twenty-four books to tell me I was angry.
I am reading the Odyssey, obviously, for accuracy. So far: the Cyclops chapter is fair, the Phaeacian chapter is flattering, and the entire first four books are about my son looking for me, which I did not know about and which has been a difficult experience.
Not reading. Weaving. But I have Ovid's Metamorphoses on loan and I will say he got my tapestry exactly right, which is more than anyone at the contest did.