Every book is: Helen Keller The World I Live In 14
How deep-seated: Glenway Wescott Continual Lessons 169
Like an earnest: Kenneth Burke Towards a Better Life 24
It is up: Charles Guignon On Being Authentic 130
These are the: Adam Phillips On Balance 236
They lived und: James Joyce Finnegans Wake 28
What a difference: Pascal Pensees 168
I am forever: John Francis Hunter The Gay Insider 78
Silly seasons: Harold Bloom Anatomy of Influence 13
Tinkering over sentences: David McConnell Firebrat 3
Lately, my sexual: Susan Sontag I, etcetera: Stories 45
Revenge fucking: Michael Herr Kubrick 88
I felt excellent: Walter Kirn My Hard Bargain 103
Nonetheless my condition: David Markson Wittgenstein’s
Mistress 133
Loners can be: David McConnell Firebrat 3
It was all: Frederick Seidel Poems 1959-2009 9
Unending flights: W. G. Sebald After Nature 61
Other people see: Adam Phillips On Balance 224
I entered silently: Edmund White Noctures for the King of
Naples 84
Then I stood: Daniel Kehlmann Me and Kaminsky 94
After that it: Graham Greene May We Borrow Your
Husband 140
Writers are a: Justin O’Brien Camus 103
Our ears: Henry James Portrait of a Lady 311
The better you: D. H. Lawrence Studies in Classic
American Literature 42
Yet I could: John Ashbery Flow Chart 178
I am beginning: Andre Gide The Counterfeiters 205
I have always: Elizabeth Hardwick Sleepless Nights 11
And this must: Ludwig Wittgenstein Notebooks 1914-1916 13
My mother’s femaleness: Elizabeth Hardwick Sleepless Nights 21
My mother was: Georges Bataille The Blue of Noon 12
This was her: Dezso Kosztalanyi Skylark 15
And walking in: Djuna Barnes Nightwood 61
For nothing could: Lydie Salvayre Company of Ghosts 18
The dizziness and: E. F. Benson The Freaks of Mayfair 53
Women baffled me: Andrew Holleran Nights in Aruba 33
I was born: Wayne Koestenbaum Moira Orfei in Aigues
Mortes 6
It was an: Mary McCarthy The Group 292
It was 1968: Paul Griffiths Modern Music 173
A sordid sexual: David McConnell Firebrat 81
From the beginning: Mikis Theodorakis Journal of
Resistance 29
It’s something almost: David Wojnarowicz Memories That
Smell Like Gasoline 47
Grown-ups tried: Jean-Christophe Valtat 03 69
I was a: Jean Genet The Declared Enemy 8
My mother was: Andrew Holleran Nights in Aruba 33
Days and nights: Thomas Bernhard Prose 121
After I had: Denton Welch Maiden Voyage 7
I knew that: George Orwell An Age Like This 1
I became a: Richard Rodriguez Brown 147
Land of noble: Walicki A History of Russian Thought 75
New York City: Hart Crane Libray of America: Complete
Poems and Selected Letters 306
New York seemed: James Blake The Joint 309
Meanwhile, the possibility: Paul Griffiths Modern Music
150
Thank you, Proust: Michael Cunningham By Nightfall 17
I was glad: Denton Welch Maiden Voyage 35
Then the amazing: E. F. Benson The Freaks of Mayfair 111
My mother wanted: John Cheever Stories 691
“My dear,” she: F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby 40
My childhood was: Fran Lebowitz Reader 38
My mother has: Susan Sontag I, etcetera: Stories 133
My father went: Teju Cole Open City 188
Though long dead: Gore Vidal Palimpsest 256
Insanity, of course: Mark Rowlands The Philosopher and
the Wolf 18
We find our: Charles Guignon On Being Authentic 87
“I didn’t,” said Joe: O. Henry The Four Million 67
My experience of: John Cage Musicage 60
Perhaps the least: Fran Lebowitz Reader 88
Yet any distinction: Harold Bloom Anatomy of Influence 4
12.
David woke next: E. F. Benson David Blaize 34
He changed some: Vladimir Nabokov Laughter in the Dark 110
At all events: W. G. Sebald Vertigo 18
There were so: James Joyce Dubliners 107
He regarded himself: Kenneth Silverman Begin Again 88
He had many: Gioia Timpanelli Sometimes the Soul 154
It was a: James Joyce Dubliners 182
He tried to: James Joyce Dubliners 39
For the moment: Richard Ellmann James Joyce 66
He felt that: Vladimir Nabokov Laughter in the Dark 19
He had a: D. H. Lawrence Sons and Lovers 88
The idea of: Adam Phillips On Balance 224
I am sure: Ivy Compton-Burnett A Family and a Fortune 25
Which made it: Daniel Kehlmann Measuring the World 250
Mind you: Petros Abatzoglou What Does Mrs. Freeman Want? 94
His wife was: Dezso Kosztalanyi Skylark 79
But nobody came: Patrick White Vivisector 418
Obscurely, each thought: Bruce Duffy The World As I Found It 283
She noticed that: Henry James Portrait of a Lady 248
At such moments: W. G. Sebald Vertigo 28
It’s corny: Michael Cunningham By Nightfall 16
“I suppose I: Blair Niles Strange Brother 221
The metaphor: Alex Ross Listen to This 16
I was still: Glen Baxter The Further Blurtings of Glen
Baxter [no page numbers]
But one has: Jacques Lacan Four Fundamental Concepts
133
There are moments: R.P. Blackmur Studies in Henry James
197
It was all: Dezso Kosztalanyi Skylark 84
Moral: slack beds: Richard Howard Inner Voices 409
I rubbed his: Edmund White My Lives 239
The poor man: Thomas Bernhard My Prizes 89
Still, he has: Mark Merlis American Studies 245
I didn’t like: Michael Cunningham By Nightfall 22
I told him: Charles Henri Ford Like Water From a Bucket
149
A dreadful silence: E. F. Benson Freaks of Mayfair 123
13.
By late September: Ron Padgett Joe 216
He lived a: Frederick Seidel Poems 1959-2009 195
But he came: Gilbert Highet Poets in a Landscape 17
To travel without: Sylvia Townsend Warner Summer Will
Show 85
One day while: Filip Noterdaeme The Autobiography of
Daniel J. Isengart 45
He lay half: Patrick White Vivisector 448
We’ve been discussing: Susan Sontag Reborn 84
He slouched down: Gilbert Adair Love and Death on Long
Island 132
“When I try: Ronald Firbank Three More Novels 36
The slight asymmetry: Edmund White Rimbaud 9
I liked being: Colette Pure and Impure 107
Those who meet: B. K. S. Iyengar Light on Yoga 45
“This,” I said: Giacomo Casanova History of My Life 707
Believe it or: Bruce Duffy The World As I Found It 220
“Whoa, slow down: Edward St Aubyn At Last 114
“Do you really: Sylvia Townsend Warner The Corner That
Held Them 56
All his life: Ron Padgett Joe 266
I exaggerate: Anita Brookner Look at Me 18
He never gave: Robert Walser The Assistant 281
That would be: Jane Gardam Faith Fox 81
But in general: Ron Padgett Joe 134
He waggled a: John Banville The Untouchable 139
“When one is
: Ludwig Wittgenstein Notebooks 1914-1916
10
He was so: Robert Frost The Notebooks of Robert Frost 32
The sadness of: Sherwood Anderson Winesburg, Ohio 234
I could not: W. G. Sebald Rings of Saturn 5
He remembered his: Edna O’Brien James Joyce 12
In this he: Virginia Woolf Orlando 113
“Thank you for: D. H. Lawrence Selected Letters 307
Where did you: Bertolt Brecht Galileo 47
The book was: John Ashbery April Galleons 5
Joe had been: Ron Padgett Joe 52
It is all: D. H. Lawrence Studies in Classic American
Literature 148
The price he: John Banville The Untouchable 268
It seemed to: Glen Baxter Atlas (no page numbers)
I am a: Alex Ross Listen to This 5
I felt myself: Anita Brookner Look at Me 87
That is how: J. M. Coetzee Diary of a Bad Year 91
Silence, he said: Virginia Woolf Orlando 93
We take long: James Merrill The Changing Light at
Sandover 23
Sunshine, a bird: Roland Barthes Mourning Diary 166
Forced to make: Stephen Jay Gould Hen’s Teeth 164
You never stop: Lydie Salvayre The Power of Flies 55
Apart from that: Jean Echenoz Piano 114
To all appearances: James Blake The Joint 157
Or maybe not: Jean Echenoz Piano 87
It was that: H. G. Wells The Time Machine 27
The other houses: James Joyce Dubliners 71
Joe said, “I’m: Peter Cameron Someday This Pain 34
Then he was: Sylvia Townsend Warner Summer Will Show
104
He wanted to: Bruce Duffy The World As I Found It 421
He believed that: Andrzej Walicki A History of Russian
Thought 23
“All you’ve got: Hart Crane Library of America: omplete
Poems and Selected Letters 334
In other words: John Cage Musicage 61
You have to: Karl Ove Knausgaard My Struggle: Book One
188
I will not: David Levithan The Full Spectrum 108
Humility is a: E.M. Forster Aspects of the Novel 117
Our twentieth century: Robert Thurman Inner Revolution
37
The aim of: Harold Bloom Ruin the Sacred Truths 178
One last point: Gilbert Highet Poets in a Landscape 20
The future has: Diane Williams It Was Like My Trying to
Have a Tender-Hearted Nature 91
Everyone today will: W. H. Auden Forewords and Afterwords 279
What a strange: David Leavitt The Indian Clerk 141
He dismissed bourgeois: Andrzej Walicki History of
Russian Thought 80
Among the strongest: Edward Mendelson Later Auden 314
Everywhere, between the: Ronald Firbank Three More
Novels 46
“The main thing: Ken Kesey Sometimes a Great Notion 177
I was stirred: Benjamin Sonnenberg Lost Property 135
Fortunately, I am: Anita Brookner Look at Me 36
“Well, yeah: Umberto Eco Mysterious Flame 348
“You know what: John Daido Loori 8 Gates of Zen 59
If you care: David Thomson Have You Seen…? 25
“I don’t,” said: Charles Dickens Barnaby Rudge 10
“Who’s your favorite: Alice Munro The Progress of Love 55
“Karl Ove Knausgaard: Karl Ove Knausgaard My Struggle:
Book Two 496
Towards dark: Patrick White The Vivisector 448
I had been: Anita Brookner Look at Me 73
I of all: Umberto Eco Mysterious Flame 167
Loveless, landless: James Joyce Ulysses 43
Since this sensation: Geoff Dyer Out of Sheer Rage:
Wrestling with D. H. Lawrence 51
I Google it: Ellen Sussman Dirty Words 77
How quickly the: Louisa Perillo I’ve Heard the Vultures
Singing 13
I found myself: H. G. Wells The Time Machine 56
All I could: W. G. Sebald Rings of Saturn 5
That’s the ego: John Daido Loori 8 Gates of Zen 59
Convinced life is: Frederick Seidel Poems 1959-2009 493
14.
An ambulance hurries: David Thomson Have You Seen…?
33
The crimes sparkle: Frederick Seidel Area Code 212 55
If only I: Susan Sontag I, etcetera: Stories 122
My intentions are: Max Ewing Going Somewhere 90
So much for: Sarah Bakewell How to Live 47
In this sense: James Wood The Broken Estate 256
“I’ll teach you: Sam Massey Return of the Greek 119
That’s a pledge: Max Ewing Going Somewhere 98
David laughed gleefully: Eleanor Porter Just David 94
He would love: James Joyce Dubliners 119
Such as…: Noel Coward Pomp and Circumstance 235
That indeed is: Harold Bloom Hamlet: Poem Unlimited 35
“There is happiness: Bertolt Brecht Galileo 42
Tilting his head: J. D. Salinger Nine Stories 47
“Please, do not: Alfred Chester Jamie Is My Heart’s Desire
258
We all live: Ivy Compton-Burnett A Family and a Fortune
26
Do you know: Andre Tellier Twilight Men 31
“Nothing is got: Harold Bloom Ruin the Sacred Truths 201
The writer does: Roland Barthes Critical Essays xii
Thus every writer’s: Roland Barthes Reader 405
I’d far rather: E. M. Forster A Passage to India 130
After all, it: Richard Rodriguez Brown 40
I was a: Charles Kaiser The Gay Metropolis 85
Punish me: James Joyce Ulysses 83
“You are quite: Thomas Hardy Jude the Obscure 152
“Things can always: Stephen Benatar Wish Her Safe at
Home 7
“Ah”: John Fowles The Magus 17
Longing for sweeter: John Daido Loori 8 Gates of Zen 62
“I don’t care: E. M. Forster A Passage to India 130
Very ingenious: George Orwell An Age Like This 20
And since, on: Lydie Salvayre Portrait of the Artist as a
Domesticated Animal 70
A moment later: Evan S. Connell Mrs. Bridge 123
When I was: Robert Bolaño By Night in Chile 127
There was no: Glen Baxter Returns to Normal (no page
numbers)
It was fascinating: Jean Echenoz I’m Gone 13
I work better: Gioia Timpanelli Sometimes the Soul 36
I forbade myself: Thomas Bernhard My Prizes 72
Leafing through a: Philip Roth Professor of Desire 201
15.
Eleanor “sprang from: Alison Weir Eleanor of Acquitaine:
A Life 7
“If you want: Paula Fox Poor George 102
“I’m always kind: Henry James Portrait of a Lady 490
No one’s supposed: Gore Vidal Palimpsest 129
I found it: Thomas Bernhard My Prizes 73
As a child: Gertrude Stein Selections ed., Retallack 17
Once she thought: AA Bronson Lana 151
At this point: E. F. Benson The Freaks of Mayfair 117
Flowering puberty: Aidan Higgins Scenes from a Receding
Past 81
A great deal: David Lodge Consciousness and the Novel 91
There were stormy: Vladimir Nabokov Laughter in the
Dark 192
And then, who: Jean Echenoz Piano 174
The struggle, if: Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter
177
Traits that we: Stephen Benatar Wish Her Safe at Home vi
She was under: Roland Barthes S/Z 229
Little is known: Polly Brooks Queen Eleanor 11
Eleanor took no: Ivy Compton-Burnett Parents and
Children 164
“To wrestle with: William James Talks to Teachers 133
The paradox is: David Lodge Consciousness and the Novel
121
She stood in: Vladimir Nabokov Laughter in the Dark 42
Beside her was: Sylvia Townsend Warner Summer Will
Show 95
He smiled wistfully: Ralph Sassone The Intimates 160
Eleanor loved the: Polly Brooks Queen Eleanor 12
Everything lay beneath: Robert Walser The Assistant 230
On such productive: Tony Judt Memory Chalet 9
16.
I am sitting: Hans Keilson Death of the Adversary 37
Scared of the: Guy Hocquenghem Screwball Asses 38
Better take two: Michael Cunningham By Nightfall 5
The object in: Wayne Koestenbaum Moira Orfei in Aigues
Mortes 14
Novels seem like: Amanda Michalapoulo I’d Like 41
The novel is: Don Paterson Rain 4
The worse your: Adam Phillips On Balance 33
Originality is therefore: Roland Barthes Critical Essays xii
Miracles happen every: H. Jackson Brown Life’s Little
Instruction Book 43
Each is in: Gilbert Highet Poets in a Landscape 14
Introspection, however, is: Ronald Firbank Three More
Novels 55
Depression comes when: Roland Barthes Mourning Diary
62
17.
David gave a: E. F. Benson David Blaize 46
“But where are: Jane Austen Northanger Abbey 161
At first, he: Gilbert Highet Poets in a Landscape 26
Suddenly their eyes: D. H. Lawrence Sons and Lovers 136
Now that this: Henry James The Europeans 48
Please, David, she: Rob Stephenson Passes Through 30
We only want: Philip Roth Professor of Desire 192
Now he’s really: David Thomson Have You Seen…? 37
The deeper you: David Lodge Consciousness and the
Novel 109
I was in: Victoria Redel Loverboy 21
I will not: James Joyce Dubliners 86
I remain a: Alfred Chester Looking for Genet 173
I returned to: J. M. Barrie The White Bird 98
“Oh, don’t be: E. F. Benson David Blaize 45
For now was: Sylvia Townsend Warner Summer Will Show
90
As soon as: Gustave Flaubert Sentimental Education 69
The sense of: Graham Greene The Heart of the Matter 225
But instead of: Jean Genet Querelle 181
His life has: Søren Kierkegaard Diary of a Seducer 11
Poor, ridiculous young: Gilbert Highet Poets in a
Landscape 25
“He has a: Aidan Higgins Scenes from a Receding Past 127
And David did: J. M. Barrie The White Bird 9
An Honest Ghost Page 11