An Honest Ghost
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Everybody is feeling: Gertrude Stein Wars I Have Seen 75
They danced at: Aidan Higgins Scenes from a Receding
Past 181
They attacked one: E. M. Forster A Passage to India 122
“Do you think: D. H. Lawrence St. Mawr and the Man
Who Died 25
When it was: Nathanael West Miss Lonelyhearts 38
She hadn’t said: Patricia Highsmith Tremor of Forgery 43
“What the hell: Paula Fox The Coldest Winter 51
“Do not talk: Ivy Comtpon-Burnett Parents and Children
19
What if, for: Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence
41
She spoke amiably: Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence
105
“Do you know: John Fowles The Magus 20
Somehow she managed: Paula Fox The Coldest Winter 42
It left her: Rachel Ingalls Mrs. Caliban 12
He listened carefully: Mark Merlis American Studies 115
“In future we’ll: Gustave Flaubert Sentimental Education
124
The night was: Patrick White The Vivisector 445
They were young: Robert Bolaño By Night in Chile 83
One of the: W. Somerset Maugham The Razor’s Edge 188
She spoke of: Charles Warren Stoddard For the Pleasure of
His Company 181
Kindness personified: Glenway Wescott Continual Lessons
165
“The trouble is: Blair Niles Strange Brother 132
She really knows: Lydie Salvayre The Company of Ghosts
16
They agreed on: Charles Warren Stoddard For the Pleasure
of His Company 88
“And now you: Ivy Compton-Burnett Parents and Children 276
One of the: Michael Cunningham By Nightfall 11
“Just like a: Hans Keilson The Death of the Adversary 17
She is nothing: Ray Monk Ludwig Wittgenstein 21
He withdraws again: Ralph Sassone The Intimates 35
Then there was: Virginia Woolf Between the Acts 3
“That’s why I: Fyodor Dostoevsky The Gambler 158
“Amen,” sang David: E. F. Benson David Blaize 28
Not knowing what: Nathanael West Miss Lonleyhearts 126
He hadn’t meant: E. M. Forster A Passage to India 122
This scene was: Proust Sodom and Gomorrah (trans.
Sturrock) 7
The Beautiful is: Charles Baudelaire The Mirror of Art 195
“You seem a: Anthony Burgess A Clockwork Orange 114
You look good: Alfred Chester The Exquisite Corpse 34
Don’t insult me: Andre Gide The Counterfeiters 205
Throw me down: F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby 144
Do you prefer: Theodore Dreiser An American Tragedy
465
He refused, but: Conor Cruise O’Brien Camus 103
“It’s not out: Colette Pure and Impure 57
His contempt for: D. H. Lawrence Stories Vol. III 589
They thrill him: Michael Cunningham By Nightfall 5
She was so: Theodore Dreiser An American Tragedy 366
“But at the: Justin Spring Secret Historian 125
These are the: Adam Phillips On Balance 225
“I’m perfectly willing: Joseph P. Lash Eleanor and Franklin
684
“I wouldn’t be: Darcy O’Brien A Way of Life Like Any
Other 39
“It’s true I’m: Philip Roth Professor of Desire 82
O dear, o: W. H. Auden Forewords and Afterwords 453
Colette had it: Bruce Duffy The World As I Found It 297
Thus women are: Ray Monk Ludwig Wittgenstein 22
Returning to the: Gustave Flaubert Sentimental Education
49
He kicked the: Alfred Chester The Exquisite Corpse 30
“What did I: Jean Echenoz Piano 167
“Well, what a: Ivy Compton-Burnett Parents and Children
149
She herself was: D. H. Lawrence Sons and Lovers 39
“Young people are: Gustave Flaubert Sentimental
Education 74
“We are so: E. M. Forster A Passage to India 125
And his dark: Theodore Dreiser An American Tragedy 491
“Her voice is: F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby 127
She took it: J. M. Coetzee Diary of a Bad Year 83
She came forward: Denton Welch Maiden Voyage 35
“And you really: Vladimir Nabokov Laughter in the Dark
100
The voice was: Dr. Seuss Horton Hears a Who (no page
numbers)
This no longer: Frederick and Steven Barthelme Double
Down 55
Once we have: Franz Kafka Zurau 28
Angry, and half: F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby 186
We have to: Stephen Benatar Wish Her Safe at Home vi
Though I concealed: Kenneth Burke Towards a Better Life
21
We love women: Charles Baudelaire Intimate Journals 37
I went out: Aidan Higgins Scenes from a Receding Past 142
“You won’t stay: Honoré de Balzac Lost Illusions 538
He spent the: Justin Spring Secret Historian 125
They need me: John Ashbery April Galleons 7
18.
“What are you: E. F. Benson David Blaize 215
He means to: Michael Cunningham By Nightfall 167
“Why, David,” said: J. M. Barrie The White Bird 212
He’d spent half: Robert Walser The Assistant 285
The Magic Mountain: Michael Cunningham By Nightfall 7
He wished that: E. M. Forster A Passage to India 129
But it opens: Tony Judt Memory Chalet 90
The wish always: Adam Philips Missing Out 109
He had a: Carson McCullers Reflections in a Golden Eye 11
I gathered from: J. M. Barrie The White Bird 132
“Such missteps,” he: Heinrich Kleist Selected Prose 269
I don’t know: Tony Judt Memory Chalet 13
A kind of: Roland Barthes Mourning Diary 68
He wailed loudly: Sam Massey Return of the Greek 153
It was depressing: A. M. Homes Jack 134
“She loves me: Graham Greene The Heart of the Matter 235
Oh, incompetence!: Jorges Luis Borges Collected Fictions 32
If you can: Harold Bloom Hamlet: Poem Unlimited 32
I sigh, depressed: John Gardner Grendel 9
“Yes,” I said: James Lasdun The Horned Man 101
I pulled myself: Diane Williams It Was Like My Trying to
Have a Tender-Hearted Nature 14
The more I: Van Gulden Real Parents Real Children 231
If a man’s: B. K. S. Iyengar Light on Yoga 47
Love is an: Leo Bersani A Future for Astyanax 289
Such an old: John Banville The Infinities 8
Times like this: Louisa Perillo I’ve Heard the Vultures
Singing 22
I’m just trying: Peter Cameron Someday This Pain Will Be
Useful To You 32
This is not: Kazuki Sekida Zen Training 31
He dropped his: Theodore Dreiser An American Tragedy
528
“I’m sorry about: Andrew Holleran Dancer from the Dance
216
The supreme vice: Portable Oscar Wilde 511
David himself had: Andre Gide The Counterfeiters 165
He looked me: Gore Vidal Two Sisters 194
I knew I: Alfred Chester The Exquisite Corpse 52
“I pretended she: J. D. Salinger Nine Stories 13
But you see: Andrew Holleran Dancer from the Dance 169
What an unnatural: Leo Lerman The Grand Surprise 158
He was also: Clara Clement Naples 17
“The basis of: Portable Oscar Wilde 517
The mind obeys: Giacomo Casanova History of My Life 325
But maybe
not: Adam Thirlwell Delighted States 11
All day long: Bruce Duffy The World As I Found It 247
I had not: Susanna Pinney, ed. I’ll Stand by You: Letters of
Sylvia Townsend Warner 24
My private life: Charles Kaiser 1968 in America 200
We don’t need: Gore Vidal Two Sisters 251
But think about: Stephen Jay Gould Hen’s Teeth 170
One has to: Søren Kierkegaard Diary of a Seducer 45
No thanks: Harry Mathews The Journalist 55
David talked in: Don DeLillo The Names 261
“So I have: Søren Kierkegaard Diary of a Seducer 185
At least I: Gore Vidal Palimpsest 250
That is our: Maximilien Robespierre Virtue and Terror 110
But a style: Adam Thirlwell Delighted States 24
“To tell the: Christopher Priest The Glamour 186
Oh, pardon, madame: Albert Camus The Fall 12
“Do you expect: J. M. Coetzee Waiting for the Barbarians
53
It was too: Rudy Wilson The Red Truck 143
The street is: Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays 257
The fairies perched: Sylvia Townsend Warner Kingdoms of
Elfin 197
As long as: Guy Hocquenghem Screwball Asses 25
Young people: Tim Dean Unlimited Intimacy 162
I wanted to: Denton Welch Maiden Voyage 273
It was too: Anita Brookner Look at Me 46
In any modern: W. H. Auden Forewords and Afterwords
“All right, let’s: Mary McCarthy The Group 313
The purpose is: Henry Green Doting 54
“I’d love to: Rachel Ingalls Mrs. Caliban 14
In the translucent: W. G. Sebald After Nature 63
“I can’t tell: Ron Nyswaner Blue Days Black Nights 179
His warm, masculine: Robert Walser The Assistant 289
David’s head dropped: Honoré de Balzac Lost Illusions 538
Added to this: Jean Echenoz Piano 135
“Why,” I said: Andrew Holleran Dancer from the Dance
212
I threw him: Fyodor Dostoevsky House of the Dead 315
“I don’t sleep: Sam Massey Return of the Greek 145
“What are you: Ralph Sassone The Intimates 159
It was an: Geoff Dyer Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D.
H. Lawrence 22
The intellectual attitude: Theodor Adorno Stars Down to
Earth 157
I was astonished: Harry Mathews The Journalist 59
“What do you: Giacomo Casanova History of My Life 964
It’s good at: John Gardner Grendel 10
“Doesn’t matter what: E. F. Benson David Blaize 37
He was lying: Sylvia Townsend Warner The Corner That
Held Them 36
He had given: Petros Abatzoglou What Does Mrs. Freeman
Want? 102
He had never: Jorges Luis Borges Collected Fictions 366
It is not: Blackmur Studies in Henry James 199
“I wasn’t trying: Victoria Redel Border of Truth 87
Nothing, however: D. H. Lawrence Sons and Lovers 137
For “style” has: Charles Baudelaire Mirror of Art 276
“Well, what is: Rudyard Kipling Kim 235
I heard some: James Lasdun The Horned Man 53
“Listen,” he said: James Blake The Joint 167
Opportunity sometimes knocks: H. Jackson Brown Life’s
Little Instruction Book 123
Another long silence: Rudyard Kipling Kim 112
How the hell: Glenway Wescott Continual Lessons 161
We should strive: Andre Tellier Twilight Men 112
But I am: H. G. Wells The Time Machine 104
19.
Strange beds have: Kazuo Ishiguro Remains of the Day 47
A spot of: Proust Sodom and Gomorrah 55
I was—and: Lydie Salvayre Portrait of the Artist as a
Domesticated Animal 26
Was love insane: Andre Tellier Twilight Men 91
I, too, wanted: Edmund White Rimbaud 7
I know the: Alex Ross Listen to This 19
I, too, wanted: Edmund White Rimbaud 7
David sat quietly: Don DeLillo The Names 67
“Anarchy,” he said: Graham Greene May We Borrow Your
Husband? 126
I made no: Jean Genet Funeral Rites 14
My mind drifts: Alex Ross Listen to This 20
Life in the: Andre Tellier Twilight Men 88
It was too: Patrick White Vivisector 458
Yet the vulnerable: Gilbert Adair Love and Death on Long
Island 134
“I have no: Vladimir Nabokov Laughter in the Dark 44
I say that: David Lehman, ed. Great American Prose
Poems 146
Life has but: Charles Baudelaire Intimate Journals 39
“I like men: Portable Oscar Wilde 342
“There’s a something: Henry James The Lesson of The
Master 49
He said that: Giacomo Casanova History of My Life 568
Tentatively, he added: David McConnell Firebrat 94
Then he smiled: Vladimir Nabokov Laughter in the Dark
34
He liked to: Robert Lowell Collected Prose xi
In truth, however: Sarah Bakewell How to Live 53
Behind our thoughts: Ludwig Wittgenstein Notebooks
1914-1916 22
He raised his: Mark Merlis American Studies 114
I ignored this: Stephen Benatar Wish Her Safe at Home 16
“I must kiss: Henry Green Doting 194
“One night,” he: Alfred Chester The Exquisite Corpse 33
He was a: Rudyard Kipling Kim 93
Sexy: John Francis Hunter The Gay Insider 425
His favorite instrument: Thomas Bernhard Gargoyles 76
A local artist: Edmund White Rimbaud 130
Asleep, or perhaps: Andre Tellier Twilight Men 71
He picked up: Robert Walser The Assistant 295
The men I: Carl Van Vechten Parties 157
That can hardly: Bertolt Brecht Galileo 30
I wish I: Glenn Gould Letters 240
As Gertrude Stein: Janet Malcolm Two Lives 224
20.
You can imagine: Thomas Bernhard Frost 33
This is Eleanor’s: Alison Weir Eleanor of Acquitaine 2
Her whole life: Janet Malcolm Two Lives14
Life-bloated: John Gardner Grendel 11
She was woebegone: Jean Genet Funeral Rites 12
She has given: Gore Vidal Two Sisters 172
When she walked: Hans Keilson Comedy in a Minor Key
81
“The force of: Sylvia Townsend Warner Summer Will Show
79
“Ridiculous,” she said: Hans Keilson Comedy in a Minor
Key 82
Meanwhile, she also: Sylivia Townsend Warner The Corner That
Held Them 76
We can’t talk: Justin Taylor Everything Here is the Best
Thing Ever 124
Tears brimmed up: Menis Koumandereas Koula 86
To be continued: James Joyce Finnegans Wake 18
She talks about: Just Taylor Everything Here is the Best
Thing Ever 114
Some situations brought: Joseph P. Lash Eleanor and
Franklin 145
No one can: W. G. Sebald Austerlitz 25
She had no: D. H. Lawrence St. Mawr 55
She was thirty-one: D. H. Lawrence Sons and Lovers 2
They had married: D. H. Lawrence Stories Vol I 71
It was the: Evan S. Connell Mrs. Bridge 125
His rosy tongue: Ronald Firbank Five Novels 372
He and his: Gilbert Highet Poets in a Landscape 25
His hatred of: Gustave Flaubert Sentimental Education 202
Exalted but remote: Edmund White Rimbaud 141
Whenever he went: Vladimir Nabokov Laughter in the
Dark 36
He was desperate: Edmund White Rimbaud 146
She had cried: Henry James Portrait of a Lady 358
After that she: Gilbert Highet Poets in a Landscape 25
There was nothing: Karl Ove Knausgaard My Struggle:
Book Two 206
She walked on: Sylvia Townsend Warner Summer Will
Show 102
I remarked in: Edmund White Nocturnes for the King of
Naples 130
We had sex: Matthew Stadler Allan Stein 27
I’ve never cultivated: Henry James Portrait of a Lady 484
Later she was: Gilbert Highet Poets in a Landscape 166
If there was: Sarah Bakewell How to Live 48
“I had an: Mary McCarthy The Group 312
She expected that: Christopher Bollas The Shadow of the
Object 125
“Then I went: Charles Kaiser 1968 in America 188
She looked at: Robert Bolaño By Night in Chile 113
Mentally, I rolled: Karl Ove Knausgaard My Struggle:
Book Two 372
I didn’t love: Graham Greene Travels with My Aunt 21
Alone unchanging: Ronald Firbank Five Novels 372
21.
Something very strange: Noel Coward Lyrics 381
You know what: Justin Taylor Everything Here is the Best
Thing Ever 116
Desirelessness: J. D. Salinger Franny and Zooey 198
So one day: Jonathan Ames I Love You 120
“Do come in: Barbara Pym Jane and Prudence 146
I make sure: Jean Genet The Declared Enemy: Texts and
Interviews 12
It was like: Sylvia Townsend Warner Summer Will Show
108
The result is: Shunryu Suzuki Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind
39
Are you constantly: Daniel C. Dennett Consciousness
Explained 137
How much time: E. M. Forster Aspects of the Novel 50
It is some: Janet Malcolm Two Lives 132
This is Freud’s: Adam Phillips On Balance 179
Noon slumbers: James Joyce Ulysses 42
22.
A high-class: Geoff Dyer Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling
with D. H. Lawrence 55
There, milling about: Roland Barthes S/Z 221
People had to: Hart Crane Library of America Collected
Poems and Selected Letters 293
The mostly faded: Hans Keilson Comedy in a Minor Key 83
It was the: Robert Bolaño Amulet 50
Champagne does wonders: Lydie Salvayre The Award 66
“But, what am: Djuna Barnes Nightwood 78
Here we have: Lydie Salvayre The Award 71
Like all the: Sherwood Anderson Winesburg, Ohio 135
Whereas what I: Gordon Lish Zimzum 54
We all love: Daniel C. Dennett Consciousness Explained 23