How my desires inhabit others!
Creepy entanglement!
But I don’t want to be a bother.
Thinking about old Lambert
Strether
He says good riddance
to his youth, after inhabiting
the sex life of his boss’s
son. Though sensible Maria Gostrey
doesn’t think Strether a bother,
he doesn’t cop to her
charms but retreats to the USA,
leaving the sensual ghosts his desires had blooded
to savor forever
their dispatriated dalliance—
bother to no one but Chadwick Newsome’s mother.
And poor Daisy dies of the
Roman fever
after we’d all despaired of her innocence.
How my desires inhabit others,
especially when I’m not the slightest bother!
