BACK in PRINT - Presumably the mistress of the,title is mad; yet her character is so appealing,and her narrative voice so witty and seductive,that the reader will follow her hypnotically as,she unloads the intellectual baggage of a,lifetime. in a series of irreverent meditations on,everything and everybody from Brahms to sex to,Heidegger to Helen of Troy, she contemplates,aspects of the troubled past which have brought,her to her present state, creating an obvious,metaphor for ultimate loneliness.