Algie's Last Letter To Lidia Was Written Only A Few Days Before
He Died, But Reached Her Some Weeks Later, As He Had Neglected To Mark
It 'Correo Aereo'.
Algie's last letter to Lidia was written only a few days before
he died, but reached her some weeks later, as he had neglected to mark
it 'Correo Aereo'. In this letter he reported the discovery of several
new contradictions in terms and mentioned, among other things, that
Piero della Francesca died on the same day that Columbus discovered
America, and that there is in Mexico a rat poison called The Last
Supper. Such information is hard to come by these days; now that Algie
was gone, Lidia could not readily think of another source.
-- Shirley Hazzard, Nothing in Excess
