An Honest Ghost
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“Would you please: Ernest Hemingway Short Stories 255
Nothing but disdain: Giacomo Leopardi Canti 89
The man with: Lydie Salvayre Power of Flies 102
As a boy: John Waters Role Models 177
Clearly the story: Kazuo Ishiguro Remains of the Day 36
He had a: Ellen Sussman Dirty Words 240
He has enormous: Jonathan Ames I Love You 97
But he never: Raymond Cooper Bunk House Hunks 115
He squeezes me: Amanda Michalopoulo I’d Like 77
The slow pressing: Paula Fox The Coldest Winter 55
You can feel: David Thomson Have You Seen…? 41
It occurred to: Pamela Erens The Understory 101
What is going: Edward Mendelson Early Auden 18
We’re deep into: Harry Mathews The Journalist 23
“No,” he said: Thomas Bernhard Gargoyles 51
I am, as: Vladimir Nabokov Laughter in the Dark 40
You should have: Kenzaburo Oe A Personal Matter 141
God approved his: Nathanael West Miss Lonelyhearts 57
“Yes, I know: Henry James Portrait of a Lady 403
No matter how: Nathanael West Miss Lonelyhearts 6
The man had: Thomas Bernhard Gargoyles 83
“No: Patrick White Vivisector 397
Your Highness, I: Bertolt Brecht Galileo 93
The white American: James Baldwin Notes of a Native Son
119
“You have beautiful: Ernest Hemingway A Farewell to
Arms 13
“Wait a second: Pamela Erens The Understory 141
A breeze was: Kazuo Ishiguro Remains of the Day 67
“You’re not an: Ernest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms 18
That isn’t funny: Bertolt Brecht Galileo 12
It was high: Sylvia Townsend Warner Summer Will Show
80
“Time to fuck: Christopher Priest The Glamour 166
Filth: it is: Milan Kundera Testaments Betrayed 47
Just how he: Justin Spring Secret Historian 160
Then for a: Joseph Conrad Tales of Unrest 34
My belly is: Alfred Chester Looking for Genet 57
To live beyond: Fyodor Dostoevsky Notes from
Underground 7
But as I: F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby 58
Eleanor, and only: Jane Austen Northanger Abbey 202
She was like: Jean-Christophe Valtat 03
75 It was very: Henry James The Europeans 44
She looks as: Hart Crane Library of America: Collected
Poems and Selected Letters 300
She was sort: Frederick and Steven Barthelme Double
Down 68
“I don’t know: Ronald Firbank Three More Novels 56
Not true: James Joyce Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
177
She was cold: Warner The Corner That Held Them 28
Six years of: Warner The Corner That Held Them 29
“What are you: Alfred Chester Jamie Is My Heart’s Desire
255
“My life lately: Gioia Timpanelli Sometimes the Soul 37
She put both: Fyodor Dostoevsky The Gambler 122
“You like being: Albert Camus The Plague 126
She is so: Edward Mendelson The Things That Matter 176
“You get along: Ernest Hemingway Farwell to Arms 19
“Oh yes,” I: Christopher Priest The Glamour 206
Quite so: Plato Collected Dialogues 797
Cowed by my: Noel Coward Pomp and Circumstance 183
Her mouth was: Rachel Ingalls Mrs. Caliban 19
She was a: James Joyce Dubliners 102
I wanted to: Ernest Hemingway Farewell to Arms 25
I was elated: Fyodor Dostoevsky The Gambler 148
She wasn’t sure: Darcy O’Brien A Way of Life Like Any
Other 51
But we were: Frederick and Steven Barthelme Double
Down 196
“You don’t want: Christopher Priest The Glamour 203
She felt a: Jane Gardam Faith Fox 63
With an impulse: Craig Seligman Sontag and Kael:
Opposites Attract Me 5
She wants to: Stephen Benatar Wish Her Safe at
Home x She had a: D. H. Lawrence St. Mawr 24
“Actually your father: Stephen Benatar Wish Her Safe at
Home 5
In the darkness: Sylvia Townsend Warner Summer Will
Show 90
All is mystery: Giacomo Leopardi Canti 115
We lust for: Ray Carney The Films of John Cassavetes 222
32.
Surprisingly, Eleanor journeyed: Marion Meade Eleanor of
Acquitaine 266
And throughout the: Sylvia Townsend Warner Summer
Will Show 117
From early morning: Herman Melville The Confidence
Man 69
Those who thought: Herman Melville The Confidence Man
69
In short she: Filip Noterdaeme The Autobiography of
Daniel J. Isengart 68
33.
The forsythia is: Pamela Erens The Understory 140
And you as: Samuel Beckett Nohow On 9
Do you remember: Frank Lentricchia The Italian Actress 7
I read again: Susan Sontag Reborn 12
To this end: Hart Crane Library of America: Collected
Poems and Selected Letters 123
The pleasures of: Rachel Ingalls Mrs. Caliban 25
In the vicinity: Georges Bataille The Blue of Noon 19
The very writing: W. G. Sebald Unrecounted 8
“Language,” says Wittgenstein: Marjorie Perloff
Wittgenstein’s Ladder 62
(Uttering a word: Ludwig Wittgenstein Philosophical
Investigations 4
There is no: Ludwig Wittgenstein Lectures 1930-32 50
In short, all: Umberto Eco Mysterious Flame 364
For no reason: Georges Bataille The Blue of Noon 13
A writer without: Charles Burkhart The Art of Ivy
Compton-Burnett 16
It’s scarcely possible: Susan Sontag Styles of Radical Will 14
We are in: John Cheever Stories 532
A novel must: Charles Burkhart The Art of Ivy Compton-
Burnett 17
“Once you pick: John Waters Role Models 95
34.
Roy gets up: Dorothy Gallagher Life Stories 15
“Be sober,” he: Gore Vidal Inventing a Nation 177
This succeeded, to: Franz Kafka The Castle 27
When he got: Justin Spring Secret Historian 164
That it should: William Shakespeare Hamlet (Yale) 22
He sat down: Henry James Portrait of a Lady 497
A bold, blunt-tipped: Willa Cather Death Comes for the
Archbishop 31
Never as a: Paula Fox Poor George 28
He’d grown up: Edmund White My Lives 223
He gets up: Anton Chekhov The Portable Chekhov 310
So far so: Gore Vidal Inventing a Nation 82
“Every thing must: Edward Mendelson The Things That
Matter 8
Don’t be too: Samuel Beckett Disjecta 47
And he retained: Kenneth Silverman Begin Again 78
We came to: Joseph Conrad Tales of Unrest 15
He wrote a: Milan Kundera Testaments Betrayed 26
But is a: Milan Kundera Testaments Betrayed 11
We take almost: W. G. Sebald Austerlitz 134
He said one: John Cage Musicage 61
“You should write: Lydie Salvayre Portrait of the Artist as a
Domesticated Animal 53
The most important: Richard Wollheim Painting as an Art
270
When I squint: Pamela Erens The Understory 75
The room was: AA Bronson Lana 152
Tell me, what: Giacomo Leopardi Canti 117
The policeman replies: Justin O’Brien Camus 85
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sp; I’ve only one: Henry James Portrait of a Lady 130
Fashion is very: John Waters Role Models 44
For this alone: Tony Judt Memory Chalet 87
I learned that: David Lynch Lost Highway xiv
We must learn: Kenneth Burke Towards a Better Life 9
The young man: Sylvia Townsend Warner Summer
Will Show 108
Not bad, but: Emmanuel Carrère My Life as a Russian
Novel 32
He would describe: Anderson Ferrell Have You Heard 5
His words sounded: Joseph Conrad Tales of Unrest 24
The style, as: Ray Carney The Films of John Cassavetes 189
The Names of: James Joyce Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
220
We stand at: Justin Taylor Everything Here is the Best
Thing Ever 120
“Well, my very: Truman Capote Music for Chameleons 247
I wasn’t in: David McConnell Firebrat 147
Must I remember: William Shakespeare Hamlet (Yale) 23
I ended by: Edmund Wilson Axel’s Castle 216
Nothing contagious,” I: Pamela Erens The Understory 13
Fictions constructed out: Susan Sontag As Consciousness
is Harnessed to Flesh 513
“What is that: J. M. Coetzee Waiting for the Barbarians
142
There was salami: Patricia Highsmith Tremor of Forgery
239
“You said so: Alfred Chester Jamie Is My Heart’s Desire
250
What foolishness!”: Søren Kierkegaard Works of Love 288
His lips were: Franz Kafka The Castle 29
Enough, unhappy one: Giacomo Leopardi Canti 187
35.
It was a: W. G. Sebald Austerlitz 142
Wild spring: James Joyce Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
222
A pack of: Alex Ross The Rest is Noise 514
There was great: Willa Cather Death Comes for the
Archbishop 41
I hated them: David Lynch Lost Highway xv
Yet they looked: Patrick Leigh Fermor Time to Keep Silence
13
It feels like: Jonathan Ames I Love You 110
It goes on: David Thomson Have You Seen…? 47
All night their: Sylvia Townsend Warner The Corner That
Held Them 6
Let them howl: Vladimir Lenin State and Revolution 55
It is an: Iannis XenaKiš Formalized Music 9
Perhaps it is: Tobias Schneebuam Secret Places 158
The telephone rings: MiKiš TheodoraKiš Journal of
Resistance 153
“Well, thank you: Philip Roth Professor of Desire 85
I’m tired of: Elizabeth Gilbert Last American Man 226
“It is essential: V. S. Pritchett Dead Man Leading 22
It is a: Ivy Compton-Burnett A Family and a Fortune 25
From tomorrow onwards: Honoré de Balzac Lost Illusions
556
It seems to: W. G. Sebald Vertigo 145
“Who is there: Raymond Cooper Bunk House Hunks 139
The police officer: J. M. Coetzee Waiting for the Barbarians
148
Again I had: Plato Collected Dialogues 559
“I’ll be right: Alfred Chester Jamie Is My Heart’s Desire 248
“But you’re not: Alfred Chester Jamie Is My Heart’s Desire
30
O Mary, go: John Ashbery April Galleons 19
“The arrangement,” David: James Baldwin Notes of a Native Son
78
There was a: James Baldwin Notes of a Native Son 82
At dinner he: Rob Stephenson Passes Through 36
“And this guy: Charles Kaiser The Gay Metropolis 264
Huh?: Giles and Miller, eds. The Arts of Contemplative Care
77
“A poet, I: Virginia Woolf Orlando 80
It is two: J. M. Coetzee Waiting for the Barbarians 145
I have nothing: J. M. Coetzee Waiting for the Barbarians 48
What if you: Patrick White Vivisector 377
We belong to: Giles and Miller, eds. The Arts of
Contemplative Care 138
I suffered from: Lydie Salvayre Portrait of the Artist as a
Domesticated Animal 26
He tells of: Justin O’Brien Camus 95
“I did not: Colm Toibin The Master 41
Now at this: J. M. Coetzee Waiting for the Barbarians 150
That was the: Joseph Conrad Tales of Unrest 105
So I drank: Alfred Chester The Exquisite Corpse 54
The secret duel: Jorge Luis Borges Collected Fictions 292
Oh, how undignified: Karl Ove Knausgaard My Struggle:
Book Two 44
“I have been: J. M. Coetzee Waiting for the Barbarians 144
The deepest history: Ray Carney The Films of John Cassavetes
140
The past is: James Joyce Portrait of the Artist as a Young
Man 222
For an evening: J. M. Coetzee Waiting for the Barbarians 47
36.
“It’s because”—Joe: Ken Kesey Sometimes a Great Notion
462
He was leaning: Sylvia Townsend Warner Summer Will
Show 113
As it happened: Tony Judt Memory Chalet 88
“God seeks people: Fyodor Dostoevsky The Idiot 81
Perhaps this willingness: Sarah Bakewell How to Live 56
“I notice that: Willa Cather Death Comes for the
Archbishop 31
It felt like: Edmund White My Lives 244
Youth is a: Thomas Bernhard Gargoyles 71
He has a: Rob Stephenson Passes Through 42
I turned away: Alfred Chester Jamie Is My Heart’s Desire
30
I wobble a bit: Justin Taylor Everything Here is the Best
Thing Ever 124
He was right: Anthony Holden Tchaikovsky 201
It is not: Fran Lebowitz Reader 11
Everyday life, with: Karl Ove Knausgaard My Struggle:
Book Two 69
“To the Renaissance!: Nathanael West Miss Lonelyhearts 6
That sort of: Andre Tellier Twilight Men 24
“Just because it’s: Ralph Sassone The Intimates 140
How many people: W. H. Auden Forewords and
Afterwords 458
“Pah!” cried Joe: Charles Dickens Barnaby Rudge 26
There are perhaps: Marcel Proust On Reading 99
“And she ain’t: Charles Dickens Great Expectations 55
Quoting gets on: Thomas Bernhard Gargoyles 78
Childhood seldom interests: Alan Bennett Writing Home
xiii
Had he been: Christopher Priest The Glamour 44
He began to: Colm Toibin The Master 59
He felt ordinary: Sarah Bakewell How to Live 58
“Father,” returned Joe: Charles Dickens Barnaby Rudge 25
But I reflected: James Wood The Book Against God 251
It is bewitching: George W. S. Trow In the Context of No
Context 45
Aloud, I said: Thomas Bernhard Gargoyles 72
What I needed: Victoria Redel Loverboy 9
How I long: Susan Sontag Reborn 5
“How did that: David Leavitt The Indian Clerk 115
His mother is: MiKiš TheodoraKiš Journal of Resistance 40
I couldn’t have: Jenny McPhee A Man of No Moon 269
“Poor dear, you: Graham Greene The Heart of the Matter
49
She stared at: Paula Fox Poor George 107
“Don’t Kišs me: Sylvia Townsend Warner The Corner That
Held Them 29
His voice had: Victoria Redel Loverboy 15
A sadist: George W. S. Trow In the Context of No Context
55
We were terrified: Tony Judt Memory Chalet 10
And suddenly he: Heinrich Boll The Silent Angel 140
&nbs
p; He was obviously: Fyodor Dostoevsky The Idiot 78
“I don’t like: J. D. Salinger Nine Stories 50
Joe felt there: Ron Padgett Joe 263
Our night had: Victoria Redel Loverboy 17
That time is: James Joyce Portrait of the Artist as a Young
Man 181
“Oh, what the: J. D. Salinger Franny and Zooey 197
Is this a: Plato Gorgias 34
She powdered her: Jean Rhys After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie
40
“I have seen: Colm Toibin The Master 40
There she stood: D. H. Lawrence Sons and Lovers 337
On the other: David Thomson Have You Seen…? 65
“Darling, I’m leaving: John Cheever Stories 497
I feel kind: Jenny McPhee A Man of No Moon 171
He held out: Rudyard Kipling Kim 267
For hours they: D. H. Lawrence Sons and Lovers 23
Up and down: Sherwood Anderson Winesburg, Ohio 130
The Joe she: Jack London The Game 9
She refuses to: Janet Malcolm Two Lives 135
Whatever else is: James Joyce Portrait of the Artist as a
Young Man 189
37.
The remainder of: Gilbert Adair Love and Death on Long
Island 126
I watched David: J. M. Barrie The White Bird 213
Oozing apple pie: Rob Stephenson Passes Through 40
In this large: David Lodge Consciousness and the Novel 92
But could I: Lydie Salvayre Portrait of the Artist as a
Domesticated Animal 23
There was a: Ronald Firbank Three More Novels 60
That night I: Lydie Salvayre The Power of Flies 67
38.
Roy was in: Dorothy Gallagher Life Stories 17
He said very: Joseph Conrad Tales of Unrest 123
He was in: Jean Cocteau Holy Terrors 129
He had barricaded: Thomas Bernhard The Loser 17
He told me: Rob Stephenson Passes Through 45
As is known: Fyodor Dostoevsky The Idiot 50
Love is the: Emilio Tegui On Elegance While Sleeping 42
On that note: Lydie Salvayre Portrait of the Artist as a
Domesticated Animal 51
“Gimme a cigarette: J. D. Salinger Nine Stories 25
He was ugly: Giacomo Casanova History of My Life 989
There is nothing: Patricia Highsmith Tremor of Forgery
248
At least he: Gilbert Highet Poets in a Landscape 30
“I was once: Mary Jo Bang, trans. The Inferno 17
During the period: Georges Bataille The Blue of Noon 27
“I think this: Colm Toibin The Master 249
How could anyone: Donald Keene The Pleasures of
Japanese Literature 20
“Wake up and: Ralph Sassone The Intimates 93
Two or three: Umberto Eco Mysterious Flame 100