Word: finus
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...Finus is the Actaeon of this uniquely Mississippi myth. In 1916, he spies the youthful Birdie turning naked cartwheels in the woods. This encounter with the goddess-like teenager metamorphoses Finus; he becomes a stag...
...Heaven of Mercury is a tale of luckless love. This first novel by Brad Watson, former Briggs-Copeland Lecturer on English and American Literature and Languagea at Harvard, traces the lives of Finus Bates and Birdie Wells, prominent residents of an imagined Southern city called Mercury. Watson creates a patchwork of anecdotes narrated by many colorful characters in his attempt to knit together the convergent histories of these two protagonists...
...years later, Birdie is engaged to Earl Urquhart, a philandering suitor uniquely unfit to wed this wonderful woman. Just before the wedding, though, Earl rashly risks his bride in a poker game, and Finus wins her from him. Fate prevents Finus from collecting on his debt, and some years later he marries Birdie’s childhood friend, Avis, even though he doesn’t love...