By Blood

recalled the first time I had ever heard a sound like the one issuing from

My involvement with the young woman in question began several years ago, in the late summer of 1974, while I was on leave from the university. I sought to secure for myself a small office in the downtown business district of San Francisco, where I intended to prepare a series of lectures about The Eumenides—The Kindly Ones—the third play in Aeschylus’s great trilogy

But then she says to me, Everything worthwhile requires a fight. Honey, don’t you want to struggle?