Flaubert in Purgatory

The work of the soul is never done

It's amusing to me that folks speak of me as though they knew anything whatsoever about me. I have lived so many lives it is impossible to recount them all; and yet, of course, at the end of every life, and at the end of life itself in all of its various flavors (my favorite is mint chocolate) I always end up in Purgatory, because that's where everyone …