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Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, Found Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts

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by David Shields


  Bergman, Ingrid, 197, 234, 267

  Biarritz, 123

  Blixen, Karen von (Isak Dinesen), letters to HRH, declines marriage proposal, 197

  Byron, Lord, 28, 76, 98, 543

  C

  Cambodia, HRH plans journey to, 188; crashes aircraft, 196; writes book about, 235; meetings with Malraux, 239; capture by insurgents, 253; escape, 261; writes second book about, 283

  Cap d’Antibes, 218

  Charing Cross Hospital Medical School, 78–93

  Charterhouse, HRH enters, 31; academic distinction, 38; sexual crisis, 43; school captain, 44

  Chiang Kai-shek, interviewed by HRH, 153; HRH and American arms embargo, 162; HRH pilots to Chungking, 176; implements land-reform proposals by HRH, 178; employs HRH as intermediary with Chou En-lai, 192

  Churchill, Winston, conversations with HRH, 221; at Chequers with HRH, 235; spinal tap performed by HRH, 247; at Yalta with HRH, 298; “iron curtain” speech, Fulton, Missouri, suggested by HRH, 312; attacks HRH in Commons debate, 367

  Cocteau, Jean, 187

  Cunard, Nancy, 204

  D

  D-Day, HRH ashore on Juno Beach, 223; decorated, 242

  Dalai Lama, grants audience to HRH, 321; supports HRH’s initiatives with Mao Tse-tung, 325; refuses to receive HRH, 381

  Darwin, Charles, influence on HRH, 103; repudiated by HRH, 478

  de Beauvoir, Simone, 176

  de Gaulle, Charles, conversations with HRH, 319–47, 356–79, 401

  Dealey Plaza (Dallas, Texas), rumored presence of HRH, 435

  Dietrich, Marlene, 234, 371, 435

  E

  Ecclesiastes, Book of, 87

  Eckhart, Meister, 265

  Einstein, Albert, first Princeton visit by HRH, 203; joint signatory with HRH and R. Niebuhr of Roosevelt petition, 276; second and third Princeton visits, 284; death-bed confession to HRH, 292

  Eisenhower, Gen. Dwight D., 218, 227, 232

  Eliot, T. S., conversations with HRH, 209; suppresses dedication of Four Quartets to HRH, 213

  Ellis, Havelock, 342

  Everest, Mt., 521

  F

  Fairbanks, Douglas, 281

  Faulkner, William, 375

  Fermi, Enrico, reveals first controlled fission reaction to HRH, 299; terminal cancer diagnosed by HRH, 388; funeral eulogy read by HRH, 401

  Fleming, Sir Alexander, credits HRH, 211

  Ford, Henry, 198

  Fortune (magazine), 349

  Freud, Sigmund, receives HRH in London, 198; conducts analysis of HRH, 205; begins Civilization and its Discontents, 230; admits despair to HRH, 279

  G

  Gandhi, Mahatma, visited in prison by HRH, 251; discusses Bhagavad-gita with HRH, 253; has dhoti washed by HRH, 254; denounces HRH, 256

  Garbo, Greta, 381

  George V, secret visits to Chatsworth, 3, 4–6; rumored liaison with Mrs. Alexander Hamilton, 7; suppresses court circular, 9; denies existence of collateral Battenburg line to Lloyd George, 45

  Goldwyn, Samuel, 397

  Grenadier Guards, 215–18

  Gstaad, 359

  H

  Hadrian IV, Pope, 28, 57, 84, 119, 345–76, 411, 598

  Hamilton, Alexander, British Consul, Marseilles, 1, 3, 7; interest in topiary, 2; unexpected marriage, 3; depression after birth of HRH, 6; surprise recall to London, 12; first nervous breakdown, 16; transfer to Tsingtao, 43

  Hamilton, Alice Rosalind (later Lady Underwood), private education, 2; natural gaiety, 3; first marriage annulled, 4; enters London society, 5; beats George V at billiards, 5, 7, 9, 23; second marriage to Alexander Hamilton, 3; dislike of Marseilles, 7; premature birth of HRH, 8; divorce, 47; third marriage to Sir Richard Underwood, 48

  Hamilton, Henry Rhodes, accident-proneness, 118; age, sensitiveness about, 476; belief in telepathy, 399; childhood memories, 501; common man, identification with, 211; courage: moral, 308; physical, 201; generosity, 99; Goethe, alleged resemblance to, 322; hobbies, dislike of, 87; illnesses: concussion, 196; hypertension, 346; prostate inflammation, 522; venereal disease, 77; integrity, 89; languages, mastery of, 176; Orient, love of, 188; patriotism, renunciation of, 276; public speaking, aptitude for, 345; self-analysis, 234–67; underdog, compassion for, 176; will-power, 87

  Hamilton, Indira, meets HRH in Calcutta, 239; translates at Gandhi interviews, 253; imprisoned with HRH by British, 276; marries HRH, 287; on abortive Everest expedition, 299; divorces HRH, 301

  Hamilton, Marcelline (formerly Marcelline Renault), abandons industrialist husband, 177; accompanies HRH to Angkor, 189; marries HRH, 191; amuses Ho Chi Minh, 195; divorces HRH, 201

  Hamilton, Ursula (later Mrs. Mickey Rooney), 302–7; divorces HRH, 308

  Hamilton, Zelda, rescued from orphanage by HRH, 325; visit to Cape Kennedy with HRH, 327; declines astronaut training, 328; leads International Virgin Bride campaign, 331; arrested with HRH by Miami police, 344; Frankfurt police, 359; divorces HRH, 371; wins Miss Alabama contest, 382; go-go dancer, 511; applies for writ of habeas corpus, 728

  Harriman, Averell, 432

  Harry’s Bar, Venice, 256

  Hayworth, Rita, 311

  Hemingway, Ernest, first African safari with HRH, 234; at Battle of the Ebro with HRH, 244; introduces HRH to James Joyce, 256; portrays HRH in The Old Man and the Sea, 453

  Hiroshima, HRH observes atomic cloud, 258

  Hitler, Adolf, invites HRH to Berchtesgaden, 166; divulges Russia invasion plans, 172; impresses HRH, 179; disappoints HRH, 181

  Hydrogen Bomb, HRH calls for world moratorium on manufacture, 388

  I

  Impostors, HRH troubled by, 157, 198, 345, 439

  Inchon, Korea, HRH observes landings with Gen. MacArthur, 348

  Interlaken, Bruno Walter lends villa to HRH, 401

  International Congress of Psychoanalysis, HRH stages antipsychiatry demonstration, 357

  Ives, Burl, 328

  J

  Jerusalem, HRH establishes collegium of Perfect Light Movement, 453; attempted intercession by HRH in Arab–Israeli war, 444; HRH designs tomb, 478

  Jesus Christ, HRH compared to by Malraux, 476

  Jodrell Bank Radio-Telescope, 501

  Joyce, James, 256

  Juan-les-Pins, 347

  Jupiter, planet, HRH suggests existence of extra-terrestrial observers, 331; urges re-direction of space program to, 342

  K

  Kennedy, Cape, HRH leads Perfect Light Movement demonstration, 411

  Kennedy, John F., President, declines to receive HRH, 420; ignores danger warnings, 425; mourned by HRH, 444

  Kierkegaard, Søren, 231

  Koran, 118

  L

  Lancaster, Mrs. Burt, 411

  Lawrence, T. E., HRH compared to by Koestler, 334

  Lévi-Strauss, C., 422

  Life (magazine), 199, 243, 331, 357, 432

  Limited Editions Club, 345

  Louis XIV, 501

  M

  Malraux, André, 239, 345, 399, 476

  Mann Act, HRH charged under, 345

  McCall’s (magazine), 201, 234, 329, 333

  Menninger Clinic, HRH confined, 477; receives treatment, 479–85; discharged, 491; re-admitted, 495

  Menuhin, Yehudi, lends Palm Springs villa to HRH, 503

  Metro–Goldwyn–Mayer, offer to HRH, 511

  Miranda, Carmen, 377

  N

  NATO, 331, 356, 571

  Nice, 45

  Niebuhr, R., conversations with HRH, 270–5; admiration for HRH, 216; lends villa to HRH, 288; expresses reservations about HRH, 291

  Nietzsche, 99

  Nobel Prize, HRH nominated for, 220, 267, 342, 375, 459, 611

  O

  Oberammergau, 117

  Oedipus Complex, 42–9, 87, 451

  Old Bailey, first trial of HRH, 531; prosecution case, 533–7; hung jury, 541; second trial, 555; surprise intervention of Attorney-General, 561; acquittal of HRH, 564

  Oswald, Lee Harvey, befriended by HRH, 350; i
nspired by HRH, 354; discusses failure of the Presidency with HRH, 357–61; invites HRH to Dallas, 372

  Oxford Book of Religious Verse, 98, 116

  P

  Pasternak, Boris, conversations with HRH, 341–4

  Paul VI, Pope, praises Perfect Light Movement, 462; receives HRH, 464; attacked by HRH, 471; deplores messianic pretensions of HRH, 487; criticizes Avignon counter-papacy established by HRH, 498; excommunicates HRH, 533

  Perfect Light Movement, conceived by HRH, 398; launched, 401; charitable activities praised by Nehru, Lyndon B. Johnson, Pierre Trudeau, 423; medical mission to Biafra, 456; criticized by International Red Cross, 477; denounced by World Council of Churches, 499; criminal prosecution of, 544; disbandment, 566; reconstituted, 588; designated a religion by HRH, 604; first crusade against Rome, 618; infiltrated by CIA, 622

  Pill, the, denounced by HRH, 611

  Q

  Quai d’Orsay, expresses alarm at HRH initiatives in Third World, 651; concludes secret accords with Britain, United States and USSR, 666

  Quixote, Don, HRH compared to by Harold Macmillan, 421

  R

  Rapallo, HRH convalesces in, 321

  Readers’ Digest (magazine), 176

  Rockefeller Foundation, dissociates itself from HRH, 555

  Rubinstein, Helena, 221, 234, 242

  S

  Schweitzer, Albert, receives HRH, 199; performs organ solo for HRH, 201; discusses quest for the historical Jesus with HRH, 203–11; HRH compared to by Leonard Bernstein, 245; expels HRH, 246

  Sex-change, rumored operation on HRH, 655

  Stanwyck, Barbara, 248

  Stork Club, 231

  T

  Tangier, secret visit by HRH, 653–5

  Technology, HRH renunciation of, 409

  Telepathy, HRH interest in, 241; conducts experiments, 349–57; claims powers of, 666; Tenth Convocation of Perfect Light Movement, 672; proclamation of HRH’s divinity, 685

  Time (magazine), cover stories on HRH, 267, 359, 492, 578, 691

  Tynan, Kenneth, 451

  U

  United Nations Assembly, seized by Perfect Light Movement, 695–9; HRH addresses, 696; HRH calls for world war against United States and USSR, 698

  V

  Versailles, Perfect Light Movement attempts to purchase, 621

  Vogue (magazine), 356

  W

  Westminster Abbey, arrest of HRH by Special Branch, 704

  Wight, Isle of, incarceration of HRH, 712–69

  Windsor, House of, HRH challenges legitimacy of, 588

  Y

  Yale Club, 234

  Younghusband, Lord Chancellor, denies star chamber trial of HRH, 722; denies knowledge of whereabouts of HRH, 724; refuses habeas corpus appeal by Zelda Hamilton, 728; refers to unestablished identity of HRH, 731

  Z

  Zanuck, Darryl F., 388

  Zielinski, Bronislaw, suggests autobiography to HRH, 742; commissioned to prepare index, 748; warns of suppression threats, 752; disappears, 761

  Further Reading:

  An Incomprehensive List of

  Additional Fraudulent Artifacts

  INSTRUCTIONS

  Eric D. Anderson, “The Instructions”

  Rick DeMarinis, “Rudderless Fiction: Lesson One”

  Junot Díaz, “How to Date a Brown Girl (blackgirl, whitegirl, or halfie)”

  Becky Hagenston, “How to Keep Busy While Your Fiancé Climbs Mt. Everest”

  Shelley Jackson, “The Putti”

  Lucy A. Snyder, “Installing Linux in a Dead Badger”

  Teddy Wayne, “Rules and Regulations for Benehmen!, the German Board Game of Discipline”

  Laura Madeline Wiseman, “How to Measure Your Breast Size”

  INTERVIEWS AND INTERROGATIONS

  Charles Baxter, “The Lawrence Quint Interview”

  Wendy Brenner, “Questions for the Lawyer” (written on cocktail napkin for Esquire)

  Ben Marcus, “On Not Growing Up”

  Julie Schumacher, “An Explanation for Chaos”

  David Foster Wallace, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (excerpt)

  GUIDES

  Jonathan Safran Foer, “A Primer for Punctuation of Heart Disease”

  Amelia Gray, “Trip Advisory: The Boyhood Home of Former President Ronald Reagan”

  Thomas Hopkins, “An American Casanova in New York, by Balthus Poindexter: A Reading Group Guide”

  INTRODUCTIONS

  R. M. Berry, “History”

  Marsha Koretzky, “Kurt Vonnegut Didn’t Know Doodly-Squat about Writing”

  INQUIRIES, ASSIGNMENTS, AND STORY PROBLEMS

  Peter Cherches, “Reading Comprehension”

  Ian Frazier, “Have You Ever?”

  Myla Goldberg, “Comprehension Test”

  A. B. Paulson, “The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality: A Diagnostic Test in Two Parts”

  Padgett Powell, The Interrogative Mood: A Novel? (excerpt)

  ASSESSMENTS

  Chris Bachelder, “On a Difficult Sentence in Gatsby”

  R. M. Berry, “Second Story”

  Brian Evenson, “Moran’s Mexico: A Refutation, by C. Stelzmann”

  Ralph Gamelli, “The Stick, Recently Inducted into the Toy Hall of Fame, Is Now Available at Amazon.com”

  Alix Ohlin, “An Analysis of Some Troublesome Recent Behavior”

  Naomi J. Williams, “The Report”

  DESCRIPTIONS & EXPLANATIONS

  Ron Carlson, “The Disclaimer”

  Amelia Gray, “Code of Operation: Snake Farm”

  Shelley Jackson, “Dildo”

  Ben Marcus, “The New Female Head”

  Stephen Millhauser, “A Game of Clue”

  V. S. Naipaul, “The Night Watchman’s Occurrence Book”

  Daniel Orozco, “Orientation”

  J. David Stevens, “What We Sell in the Room Today”

  TRANSCRIPTS

  Chris Bachelder, “Deep Wells, USA”

  Arthur C. Clarke, “The Shining Ones”

  Don DeLillo, “Videotape”

  John Griswold, “Transcript of a World War I Veteran’s Narrative: Nickelton, Kentucky”

  Matthew Vollmer, “Man-O’-War”

  HIGH SCHOOL ESSAYS

  Caitlin Horrocks, “It Looks Like This”

  Eric Puchner, “Essay #3: Leda and the Swan”

  NOTES

  Rick Moody, “The Preliminary Notes”

  Keith Lee Morris, “Notes for an Aborted Story Called ‘The Cyclist’ That Turned Out to Be Too Much Like ‘The Swimmer’”

  Robert Anthony Siegel, “The Memoirs of Edwin Chester, Who Would Have Discovered the Origin of Species Had His Place on HMS Beagle Not Been Taken by Charles Darwin”

  LISTS

  Donald Barthelme, “The Glass Mountain”

  Roxane Gay, “You Never Knew How the Waters Ran So Cruel So Deep”

  Wendy Rawlings, “The Fleischer/Giaccondo Online Gift Registry”

  ADDRESSES

  Sean Adams, “I Remember When I Was Your Age, Twin Brother”

  Ron Carlson, “Gold Lunch”

  Jason Grunebaum, “Major Nixon”

  Pat Kewley, “A Hot Air Balloon Captain Addresses His Crew on the Eve of a Very Important Hot Air Balloon Race”

  Colin Nissan, “It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers”

  Joyce Carol Oates, “Ladies and Gentlemen”

  Teddy Wayne, “Okay, America: We’re Turning Everything into Vampires”

  OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS

  Amie Barrodale, “Prospectus”

  Janet Burroway, “Report on Professional Activities”

  Doug Dorst, “Splitters: H. A. Quilcock’s Profiles in Botany: A Lost Manuscript Restored”

  Ian Frazier, “Coyote v. Acme”

  Heidi Julavits, “Marry the One Who Gets There First: Outtakes from the Sheidegger–Krupnik Wedding Album”

  Stewart O’Nan, “Report on the Traffic Fatality Involving Lady Diana Spencer”
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br />   Alexi Zentner, “The Adjuster”

  SYLLABUS

  Ron Carlson, “Syllabus”

  CORRESPONDENCE

  Rosellen Brown, “Inter-Office”

  Tessa Brown, “In Reference to Your Recent Communications”

  Ron Carlson, “Recommendation for Gordon Lee Bunsen”

  Raymond Carver, “Why, Honey?”

  Dave Eggers, “Letters from Steven, a Dog, to Captains of Industry”

  Nell Freudenberger, “Letter to the Last Bastion”

  Amelia Gray, “This Quiet Complex”

  Gabe Hudson, “Dear Mr. President”

  Michael Kimball, “Excerpts from the Suicide Letters of Jonathon Bender (b.1967–d.2000)”

  Alyce Miller, “Aftershock”

  Alice Munro, “A Wilderness Station”

  George Saunders, “Ask the Optimist!”

  David Shields, “Comp Lit 101: Walt Grows Up”

  David Shields, “Possible Postcards from Rachel, Abroad”

  Joe Wenderoth, “Letter of Recommendation”

  WEBSITE

  Rob Wittig, “The Fall of the Site of Marsha,” http://www.robwit.net/MARSHA/

  NEWSLETTERS

  Meg Favreau, “The San Diego Snake Company’s September Newsletter”

  Allan Gurganus, “Preservation News”

  STYLE GUIDE

  Ron Carlson, “My True Style Guide”

  COMPENDIUM

  Michael Parrish Lee, “The People Catalogue”

  Joanna Ruocco, A Compendium of Domestic Incidents (excerpt)

  FAQS

  Ben Doller (previously Doyle), “FAQ”

  EBAY LISTING

  Patrick Madden, “Writer Michael Martone’s Leftover Water”

  HOLY SCRIPTURES

  Kevin Brockmeier, “The Jesus Stories”

  A. J. Packman, “First Drafts of the Parables of Jesus”

  J. M. Tyree, “The First Book of the Chronicles of the Cola Wars”

  SCREENPLAY

  Amelia Gray, “The Pit”

  CASE STUDY

  Steven Millhauser, “Phantoms”

  ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRY

  China Miéville, “Entry Taken from a Medical Encyclopedia”

  DIARIES

  Amelia Gray, “Diary of the Blockage”

  China Miéville, “Details”

  SUBMISSIONS

  Oyl Miller, “A Cover Letter from an Art Major Seeking a Job that Literally Requires Him to Apply the Skills He Learned in School”

 

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