Neurosurgery. Maybe neurology. [ Either way she plans to have almost no social life for half a decade, it'll be great. ]

That's right. I didn't agree with him on everything, but the big things he wrote about were universal, it seems like, and he never excluded himself from his own observations. [ Gisela doesn't seem put off by the topic change; when speaking about writers, the subject of suicide is often hard to avoid. There is a new delicacy in the way that she speaks, though, as she feels it's of greater importance to try to choose her words correctly. ]

What struck you about that in particular?