by Ronald Power
Healing Arts, Isle of Wight NHS Primary Care Trust
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Attic Red Figure
Lekythos
Attributed to the Nikon Painter
ca 470 BC
While I was in Bloomington I made a pilgrimage to the house Ross Lockridge, Jr. was living in at the time of his suicide.
There was a guy standing outside it with a compost bag. Is this 817 South Stull? I asked.
Yes, he said.
Do you get a lot of nuts like me? I asked, showing him my copy of Raintree County.
Occasionally, he said.
Have you read it? I asked.
I tried, he said.