Biography III

She explained her affinity for exile as that of the separation between the heart and the mind. She claimed to have found the concept in Ovid's "Tristia", but historians, myself included, have yet to find her meaning. When she had been forced out of Portugal, she detoured to Constanta, in modern day Romania, planning to die in the vicinity of Ovid's final resting place. In the well-known story, she planned to enter the bathtub for forty-seven hours, the same length of time her mother had spent in labor. Her note reads: "I shall leave myself as I have entered it: unclean, unknown, and unwanted" (Wattman 178). Luckily for posterity, the Utilities Authority had called a general strike the week before, stripping the town of running water for a pay rise.