#itself based on a painting depicting or at least named after romeo and juliet with the nurse

[candont]

The Mortal Immortal

I kind of want there to be more to this story than there is.  It’s just kind of light considering it comes from the author of Frankenstein and that the opening is so reference heavy.  (Wiki-wormhole did cause me to uncover that Lefanu’s Great Grandmother wrote weird/fantastic fiction.  See: The History of Nourjahad ).

Still the ending tension between wanting to and not wanting too die does raise it above just escapist fare.

Am left with two questions though:

When does the it would be terrible to live foreveer thing first emerge as a trope?

And what kind of a name in Winzy?