Louise Erdrich writes that, if she had a time machine, she would share a jail cell with Henry James, Walt Whitman, and Emily Dickinson.
Now, by some act of grace, I am in a balcony seat in Gray’s Inn circa 1594, watching one of the first performances of “The Comedy of Errors”—not because it is my favorite play but because I love to see the audience react to the Dromios. Travelling next in fiction, I’ll be walking by the gate when Charles Bovary courts Emma, that lovely portrait, the raindrops tapping on her parasol.
But if thou must burn, burn merrily, my children! And plan thy offspring with the woman always to have full authority over her own body. But there I go again, using my personal time travel to save even fictional people. So now I will stay upon the course of happiness. Chopin wants to play for me again. I accept the invitation. Unaccountably, I am stranded for a few days in a comfortable jail cell with Walt Whitman and Henry James. I take one side of the room, share a bunk with Emily Dickinson.
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