In one of this novel's minor scenes the narrator relates the story of Blind D'Arnault, a renowned piano-playing ex-slave. At college the narrator studies Latin under Gaston Cleric and ponders the meaning of "Optima dies . . . prima fugit," a Virgil phrase that also serves as the novel's epigraph. However, the bulk of the novel concerns another character, who was abandoned by Larry Donovan in San Francisco and who later has eleven children with Cuzack. The narrator is reunited with that character after he is upda  ted on
In one of this novel's minor scenes the narrator relates the story of Blind D'Arnault, a renowned piano-playing ex-slave. At college the narrator studies Latin under Gaston Cleric and ponders the meaning of "Optima dies . . . prima fugit," a Virgil phrase that also serves as the novel's epigraph. However, the bulk of the novel concerns another character, who was abandoned by Larry Donovan in San Francisco and who later has eleven children with Cuzack. The narrator is reunited with that character after he is upda  ted on her story by two of her former friends, Tiny Soderball and Lena Lingard. For 10 points, name this novel told as the reminisces of Jim Burden about his childhood friend, the titular Bohemian immigrant girl, a work by Willa Cather.
In one of this novel's minor scenes the narrator relates the story of Blind D'Arnault, a renowned piano-playing ex-slave.
{My Antonia} [the Virgil phrase roughly translates to, “the best days are the first to flee”]