It’s about time someone dedicated a book to my dear friend Carol Fitzgerald, a true and tireless book champion.

Carol, for everything you do, this one’s for you.


Venus-Mythol. The ancient Roman goddess of beauty and love, especially sensual love.

Fix-slang (orig. U.S.). A dose of a narcotic drug. Also short for fixation-Psychol. In Freudian theory, the arresting of the development of a libidinal component at a pregenital stage, so that psychosexual emotions are “fixed” at that point. Also, loosely, an obsession, an idée fixe.

Mine Enemy is growing old-

I have at last Revenge

The Palate of the Hate departs

If any would avenge-

Let him be quick-the Viand flits

It is a faded Meat

Anger as soon as fed is dead

’Tis starving makes it fat

– Emily Dickinson

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