“Turn over here: Sam Massey Return of the Greek 116
He puts on: Ludwig Wittgenstein Lectures 1932-35 63
“Maybe you’re ready: David McConnell Firebrat 127
He lay on: Alfred Chester The Exquisite Corpse 30
He’s a man: Jean Genet The Declared Enemy 12
“Go to hell: Ernest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms 32
This is the: Thomas Bernhard My Prizes 77
To me the: Gore Vidal Two Sisters 126
We never release: Denis Donoghue American Classics 191
At any rate: Thomas Bernhard My Prizes 98
I had to: David McConnell Firebrat 235
28.
The cocks are: MiKiš TheodoraKiš Journal of Resistance 156
It is like: John Koethe Poetry at One Remove 12
Christmas was approaching: Robert Walser The Assistant
271
Joe slept on: Ron Padgett Joe 60
He hears nothing: Michel de Ghelderode 7
Plays 242
This was a: Evan S. Connell Mrs. Bridge 124
Like many people: Doug Crase Both 237
“You don’t know: Honoré de Balzac Lost Illusions 536
He had his: James Joyce Portrait of the Artist as a Young
Man 144
“I wish we: Ivy Compton-Burnett A Family and a Fortune
27
This, he insisted: Kenneth Burke Towards a Better Life 7
“Poor boy!: Honoré de Balzac Lost Illusions 500
“You won’t believe: Justin Taylor Everything Here is the
Best Thing Ever 11
At the risk: Stepehn Jay Gould Hen’s Teeth 133
David drank slowly: Don DeLillo The Names 219
He was a: Gilbert Highet Poets in a Landcsape 137
It had brought: Marion Meade Eleanor of Acquitaine 189
The Romantic is: Edmund Wilson Axel’s Castle 10
Etc, etc: Gordon Lish Collected Fictions 21
I suppose it: Christopher Bollas The Shadow of the Object
257
The sex with: James Blake The Joint 355
Desire was his: Bruce Duffy The World As I Found It 31
Seeing Dick Cheney: David Wojnarowicz Memories That
Smell Like Gasoline 44
Joe and I: Charles Dickens Great Expectations 160
Television is a: George W. S. Trow In the Context of No
Context 45
The vivid rhetoric: Susan Howe My Emily Dickinson 46
“Don’t lose your: Charles Dickens Great Expectations 131
“He should have: Rachel Ingalls Mrs. Caliban 16
You took the: James Joyce Finnegans Wake 66
I’m getting so: Hart Crane Library of America: Collected
Poems and Selected Letters 370
Joyce is right: James Baldwin Notes of a Native Son 162
History makes me: Rob Stephenson Passes Through 37
I thought: Gordon Lish Collected Fictions 60
I am all: David Wojnarowicz Memories That Smell Like
Gasoline 60
There is no: Fran Lebowitz Reader 12
Must be the: David Wojnarowicz Memories That Smell
Like Gasoline 43
It’s right before: Lydie Salvayre Power of Flies 157
“Dad,” he says: David Gilbert Remote Feed 95
“Don’t worry”: Ron Padgett Joe 85
“OK, OK”: Rachel Ingalls Mrs. Caliban 24
I do not: Willa Cather Death Comes for the Archbishop 50
My dear child: Bertolt Brecht Galileo 69
29.
David introduced me: Don DeLillo The Names 6
He was not: Charles Henri Ford Like Water from a Bucket
156
It was a: D. H. Lawrence Sons and Lovers 5
In all things: Donald keene The Pleasures of Japanese
Literature 7
Or was I: Nicholson Baker Room Temperature 11
I stared at: Paula Fox The Coldest Winter 57
He was tall: Albert Camus The Plague 146
He had a: Jane Gardam Faith Fox 133
In his left: Danilo Kiš Encyclopedia of the Dead 3
He’s a former: James Blake The Joint 90
For all I: Henry James Portrait of a Lady 497
Perhaps the man: D. H. Lawrence Stories Vol I 96
He also struck: Anita Brookner Look at Me 73
The handshake of: Helen Keller The World I Live In 9
There are some: Charles Warren Stoddard For the Pleasure
of His Company 29
A single insight: Samuel Beckett Nohow On 85
As a child: Robert Frost The Notebooks of Robert Frost 30
And so on: Danilo Kiš Encyclopedia of the Dead 7
He was one: Edgar Saltus Mr Incoul’s Misadventure 3
His bald head: Michael Cunningham By Nightfall 7
He stared at: Emilio Lascano Tegui On Elegance While
Sleeping 13
The signs of: Dezso Kosztalanyi Skylark 77
There was a: Jane Gardam Faith Fox 100
“I suppose I’m: Patricia Highsmith Tremor of Forgery 244
I was just: T. J. Parsell Fish 154
A bitch: Ronald Firbank Five Novels 373
David said he: E. F. Benson David Blaize 311
Dandruff dusted the: Kosztal Sklyark 76
“David, what is: Philip Roth Professor of Desire 114
The young man: Richard Rodriguez Brown 223
“David told me: Philip Roth Professor of Desire 233
His voice was: Sylvia Townsend Warner Summer Will
Show 114
He uses a language: Thomas Bernhard Gargoyles 97
“Ah, they’re part: Henry James Portrait of a Lady 247
Sometimes not so: Edward Mendelson Later Auden 306
“It’s regrettable, but: Julia Kristeva Colette 18
Oh, honey, don’t: Truman Capote Music for Chameleons
195
So alone, in: Mark Merlis American Studies 181
“We met on: Don DeLillo The Names 265
Ridiculous: Hart Crane Library of America: Collected
Poems and Selected Letters 295
He went from: Andrew Holleran Dancer from the Dance
128
Our flesh shrinks: James Joyce Portrait of the Artist as a
Young Man 142
But the fear: Gustave Flaubert Sentimental Education 216
Being full of: B. K. S. Iyengar Light on Yoga 47
I don’t pretend: Graham Greene Travels with My Aunt 11
There is no: Leo Lerman The Grand Surprise 568
He has become: Ted Hughes Tales From Ovid 17
Drinking, unfortunately, can: Douglas Crase Both 206
Oh, dear, I: D. H. Lawrence St. Mawr 110
The measure of: Robert Frost The Notebooks of Robert
Frost 315
But, dear David: Philip Roth Professor of Desire 128
“You wicked boy: Plato Collected Dialogues 107
Some time was: Albert Camus The Plague 148
“His wife is: Albert Camus The Plague 143
My eyes filled: Helen Keller The World I Live In 20
While his soul: James Joyce Portrait of the Artist as a
Young Man 140
Even now, after: Kenzaburo Oe A Personal Matter 116
“He’s living with: Kenzaburo Oe A Personal Matter 133
So I think: Lynne Sharon Schwartz The Emergence of
Memory 45
Perhaps: Søren Kierkegaard Works of Love 234
And homesick is: James Blake The Joint 379
It was interesting: Don DeLillo The Names 265
What was his: Samuel Beckett Disjecta 63
He seemed to: Elizabeth Gilbert Last American Man 220
I remember everything: Fyodor Dostoevsky House of the
Dead 320
I found his: Edmund White My Lives 248
“What do I: James Wood The Book Against God 248
“I’m not recommending: John Francis Hunter The Gay
Insider 56
“I couldn’t do: Kenzaburo Oe A Personal Matter 127
“You are sleeping: J. M. Barrie The White Bird 209
“I Love You: Jonathan Ames I Love You 78
When God hands: Truman Capote Music for Chameleons
xi
But not David’s: John Waters Role Models 222
“Well, I mean: Fyodor Dostoevsky House of the Dead 115
I segue into: Lydie Salvayre Power of Flies 2
Inconstancy, boredom, anxiety: Pascal Pensees 137
This estrangement is: John Koethe Poetry at One Remove
38
“I’ll give you: Anthony Burgess A Clockwork Orange 74
“Now, just wait: John Cheever Stories 520
David beams, showing: John Waters Role Models 223
“I’m sure you: Christopher Priest The Glamour 169
But there he: Samuel Beckett Disjecta 50
What better way: Jacques Lacan Four Fundamental
Concepts 133
“I wish you’d: J. D. Salinger Franny and Zooey 117
He was happiest: Gilbert Highet Poets in a Landscape 22
I watched them: Pamela Erens The Understory 16
Like lightning they: Giacomo Leopardi Canti 47
But what do: Julia Kristeva Colette 299
“Every son loves: Darcy O’Brien A Way of Life Like Any
Other 25
One is inclined: John Koethe Poetry at One Remove 31
“He needs you: Andre Tellier Twilight Men 64
He could not: Gilbert Highet Poets in a Landscape 21
I thought of: Graham Greene Travels with My Aunt 19
We used to: Anne Landsman The Rowing Lesson 245
To the east: Warner The Corner That Held Them 10
But soon I: Anthony Burgess A Clockwork Orange 111
Why not: Craig Seligman Sontag and Kael: Opposites
Attract Me 41
30.
I have returned: Umberto Eco Mysterious Flame 435
It’s expensive, but: Charles Kaiser The Gay Metropolis vii It has a: D. H. Lawrence Etruscan Places 8
The awareness that: Shunryu Suzuki Zen Mind, Beginner’s
Mind 40
But nothing is: Sarah Bakewell How to Live 55
Everywhere I turned: J. G. Ballard Miracles of Life 29
Twenty-first century: Harold Bloom Anatomy of Influence
4
I refuse to: Rob Stephenson Passes Through 79
There, I always: Thomas Bernhard My Prizes 99
This clearer view: Harry Mathews The Journalist 4
“It’s all very: Charles Dickens Barnaby Rudge 578
“Aren’t you bored: Robert Walser The Assistant 233
He is rarely: Denis Donoghue American Classics 170
The older I: Anthony Holden Tchaikovsky 224
Love for a: Jean Genet Funeral Rites 18
A curious sea: Virginia Woolf Diaries Vol V 359
An atmosphere of: Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa The
Leopard 41
If I had: John Ashbery Flow Chart 29
A “feel bad”: John Waters Role Models 171
Reading is like: Daniel Mendelsohn The Elusive Embrace 6
It was the: Susanna Pinney, ed. I’ll Stand by You: Letters of
Sylvia Townsend Warner 25
Climatically speaking: Jean Echenoz I’m Gone 189
Years ago I: Gore Vidal Inventing a Nation 7
You must admit: Georges Bataille Blue of Noon 34
“Ha ha ha: Afred Chester Jamie Is My Heart’s Desire 101
She drained her: Graham Greene Travels with My Aunt 12
“I liked him: David Gilbert Remote Feed 116
“People can say: Jean Genet Funeral Rites 14
Adversity has its: Charles Kaiser The Gay Metropolis 218
The notion of: Emilio Lascano Tegui On Elegance While
Sleeping 25
I am not: Umberto Eco Mysterious Flame 385
In other words: Alex Ross Listen to This 294
Mental confusion is: Georg Lukacs History and Class
Consciousness xi
Human communication, it: Graham Greene Travels with
My Aunt 84
It’s always late: Brane Mozetic Banalities 31
“Want to guess: Dorothy Gallagher Life Stories 12
“What?” Joe said: Ken Kesey Sometimes a Great Notion
450
He lay back: Blair Niles Strange Brother 146
What does it: Daniel Mendelsohn The Elusive Embrace 51
“Her father,” I: John Cheever Stories 684
We only laugh: Adam Phillips Equals 43
The youth became: Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa The
Leopard 27
“I met him: Graham Greene Travels with My Aunt 59
Unbearable: Samuel Beckett Disjecta 12
He kept asking: Alfred Chester The Exquisite Corpse 52
He says a: Truman Capote A Christmas Memory 72
I acted bored: Alfred Chester The Exquisite Corpse 53
To face up: Charles Guignon On Being Authentic 133
Funny, I’m not: Kenzaburo Oe A Personal Matter 131
What I need: Susanna Pinney, ed. I’ll Stand by You: Letters
of Sylvia Townsend Warner 8
It is a: W. G. Sebald Vertigo 157
And yet here: Bill Pronzini The Hidden 58
We are drinking: Truman Capote Music for Chameleons 3
Intellectually we were: Georg Lukacs History and Class
Consciousness xi
The task would: Richard Wollheim Painting as an Art 301
How to avoid: Charles Henri Ford Like Water from a
Bucket 36
Opting out of: Jean-Christophe Valtat 03
65 Desire is the: Tim Dean Unlimited Intimacy 174
It is a: Lynne Sharon Schwartz Emergence of Memory 56
“Forget it, Joe: Ken Kesey Sometimes a Great Notion 475
Let’s discuss you: John Francis Hunter The Gay Insider 35
But that didn’t: Frederick and Steven Barthelme Double
Down 135
“Efen if zey: Honoré de Balzac Lost Illusions 542
Adultery’s more fun: Green The Heart of the Matter 222
“So David tells: J. M. Barrie The White Bird 254
May we now: Joseph Breuer and Sigmund Freud Studies in
Hysteria 164
Joe was not: Ron Padgett Joe 203
This the way: James Joyce Finnegans Wake 94
It was already: Anton Chekhov The Portable Chekhov 410
Full moon sends: Anne Carson Autobiography of Red 65
I wanted to: Denton Welch Maiden Voyage 284
I groaned and: Ken Kesey Sometimes a Great Notion 452
“I’ve got something: W. H. Auden Forewords and
Afterwords 458
Love amazes, but: Susanna Pinney, ed. I’ll Stand by You:
Letters of Sylvia Townsend Warner 16
The most precious: Cather Death Comes for the
Archbishop 38
“Not for long: Jenny McPhee A Man of No Moon 207
Joe listed one: Ken Kesey Sometimes a Great Notion 457
A dissatisfied mind: Henry James Portrait of a Lady 500
He wished he: Ted Hughes Tales from Ovid 33
“So is this: Robert Walser The Assistant 276
“I’ve had my: Sherwood Anderson Winesburg, Ohio 261
I don’t know: Ray Carney The films of John Cassavetes 27
“No, freedom is: Anton Chekhov The Portable Chekhov
369
I think all: James Baldwin Notes of a Native Son 9
I took my: Evan S. Connell Mrs. Bridge 124
Finally, in all: Van Gulden Real Parents Real Children 221
“Oui, oui, c’est: Fyodor Dostoevsky The Gambler 82
; He chewed, and: Thomas Bernhard Frost 23
Nothing is easy: Nick Piombino Contradicta 40
“Quietly, my son: J. M. Coetzee Waiting for the Barbarians
91
At eighteen minutes: J. M. Barrie The White Bird 114
“I am leaving: Warner The Corner That Held Them 20
“You must find: Warner The Corner That Held Them 21
Nonsense: W. H. Auden Collected Prose Vol III 160
Non c’e peggior: Ilia Warner and Christopher Arnander
You Can’t Get Blood Out of a Turnip 90
No one is: Vladimir Lenin State and Revolution 46
I laughed in: Frank Lentricchia The Italian Actress 3
He was gone: J. D. Salinger Nine Stories 48
There remains only: W. G. Sebald Vertigo 154
Will our shame: Giacomo Leopardi Canti 53
It was all: Thomas Bernhard My Prizes 97
31.
But after all: Anton Chekhov The Portable Chekhov 340
The city and: Matthew Stadler Allan Stein 184
On one of: John Francis Hunter The Gay Insider 518
The mating of: W. H. Auden Forewords and Afterwords
518
With fallen branches: Kenneth Burke Towards a Better Life
27
The chords geese: Cotner and Fitch Ten Walks/Two Talks
10
Of all the: Karl Ove Knausgaard My Struggle: Book Two 61
“I believe Tarkovsky: Kenzaburo Oe A Quiet Life 86
He looked at: Harry Mathews The Journalist 54
I felt for: Paris Review Interviews Vol II 225
“My mother was: Charles Kaiser The Gay Metropolis 174
It was cooler: Patricia Highsmith Tremor of Forgery 146
I was never: Patrick White Vivisector 394
Some three years: Heinrich Kleist Selected Prose 269
Since then I’ve: Fyodor Dostoevsky The Idiot 56
It was a: F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby 83
Encountering a stranger: Tim Dean Unlimited Intimacy
206
“Which reminds me: Robert Bolaño Amulet 45
Any congruence with: Jenny McPhee A Man of No Moon
151
On the high: Lucia Perillo I’ve Heard the Vultures Singing
28
Competition is a: J. M. Coetzee Diary of a Bad Year 80
This was disingenuous: Gore Vidal Inventing a Nation 109
“And I’m speaking: Truman Capote A Christmas Memory
57
Nevertheless, not everyone: Charles Kaiser The Gay
Metropolis 264
Though I would: James Blake The Joint 275
To this day: Fyodor Dostoevsky The Gambler 161
In all my: Jean-Christophe Valtat 03
71 And is the: Giacomo Leopardi Canti 87
Human sensitivity to: Pascal Pensees 14
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