Shakespeare's Kitchen by Lore Segal

Author:Lore Segal [Segal, Lore]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
Publisher: The New Press
Published: 2010-06-24T16:00:00+00:00

Jimmy Carl’s move to Concordance coincided with the return of Ilka’s landlords, the Rasmussens. Ilka had assumed she was going to buy a house but got frightened and rented from another couple on another sabbatical and Jimmy’s things moved right in along with Ilka’s. Ilka was not sorry. It was dear to wake with a male and human body asleep in her bed, on the window side, or not asleep after all. Submerged in this gorgeous commotion, Ilka forgot, for the moment, that other body—the one not available to her and which she had never nakedly so much as imagined—nor dared to want. Now she remembered how really fond she was of poor old actual Jimmy with his ribs and collarbone and too many elbows.

They were having a hilarious breakfast, deciding if the kitchen was the yellow of pure egg yolk or eggs scrambled, when Celie called from the office. Alpha had to catch the ten o’clock flight to New York. Could Jimmy make it to an eight-thirty meeting in Leslie’s office? Jimmy might want to bring the list they’d asked him to prepare of prospective participants for the Genocide Conference.

“What list? Which conference is this?” Jimmy asked Ilka. “Where is Leslie’s office?”

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