�When afflicted by feelings of the sort I have described,� said Julia, �one would normally adopt the forthright and vigorous approach recommended by Shakespeare in his celebrated poem �Venus and Adonis.� I don�t say that it�s invariably successful�on the contrary, I have often known it to end in the most wounding of rebuffs�but at least one has the consolation of knowing one has done the right thing and acted in accordance with the best possible precedent.�

“Thus Was Adonis Murdered”