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by Gary Lachman


  So hard upon the scavengers

  And men that clean the sea.

  I know some poison I could drink.

  I’ve often thought I’d taste it.

  But mother bought it for the sink,

  And drinking it would waste it.

  INDEX OF NAMES

  Abrahamsen, David, (i); (note 50)

  Ackroyd, Peter, (i)

  Adorno, Theodore, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Alexander II, Tsar, (i)

  Allen, Woody, (i), (ii)

  Alvarez, A(lfred), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Andersen, Hans Christian, (i)

  Anderson, Sherwood, (i)

  Anthony, Mark, (i)

  Antonioni, Michelangelo, (i)

  Apollinaire, Guillaume, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Aragon, Louis, (i)

  Arendt, Hannah, (i)

  Aristotle, (i), (ii)

  Armstrong, John, (i), (ii)

  Arnold, Matthew, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Artzibbashev, Michael, (i)

  Asch, Sholem, (i)

  Ascher, Dorothy, (i)

  Aseyev, Nikoloa, (i)

  Augustine, St, (i)

  Aveling, Edward, (i)

  Bahr, Hermann, (i)

  Barnes, Julian, (i), (ii)

  Barrett, Dr, (i)

  Barzun, Jacques, (i)

  Bataille, Georges, (i), (ii)

  Baudelaire, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Becker, Gerry, (i), (ii)

  Becker, Jillian, (i), (ii)

  Beddoes, Thomas Lovell, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (mother (vii)), (viii), (ix)

  Beddoes, Dr Thomas, (i), (ii),

  Beethoven, Ludwig von, (i), (ii)

  Bell, Clive, (i)

  Bell, Vanessa (nee Stephen), (i), (ii), (iii)

  Bely, Andrei, (i), (ii)

  Benjamin, Walter, (i), (ii), (mother (iii)), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv)

  Berkeley, Bishop, (i)

  Berg, Alban, (i)

  Bierce, Ambrose, (i)

  Bigelow, Josephine, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Bigelow, Mr (husband of Josephine), (i)

  Blake, William, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Blanche, Jacques-Emile, (i), (ii)

  Blok, Alexsandr, (i)

  Blood, Fanny, (i), (ii)

  Bloom, Harold, (i)

  Boltzmann, Ludwig, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Bonner, Marjorie, (i)

  Bonnet, Paul, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Borges, Jorge Luis, (i), (ii)

  Bowker, Gordon, (i)

  Brandon, Ruth, (i)

  Braque, George, (i)

  Brecht, Bertolt, (i), (ii)

  Breton, André, (i), (ii)

  Brautigan, Richard, (i), (ii)

  Brik, Elsa, (i), (ii)

  Brik, Lili, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Brik, Osip, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Briggs, A.D.P., (i)

  Briusov, Valery, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Brodersen, Momme, (i), (ii)

  Browning, Robert, (i)

  Byron, Lord George, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Buddha, (i)

  Buff, Charlotte, (i)

  Burke, Edmund, (i)

  Burlyuk, David, (i), (ii)

  Burton, Robert, (i)

  Butler, Samuel, (i)

  Caesar, Julius, (i)

  Camus, Albert, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

  Canetti, Elias, (i), (ii)

  Caravans, Dani, (i)

  Carnap, Rudolph, (i)

  Cassady, Neil, (i),

  Castaneda, Carlos, (i)

  Cato, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Cebes, (i)

  Celan, Paul, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Cesarani, David, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Carlyle, Thomas, (i)

  Chagall, Marc, (i)

  Chatterton, Thomas, (i), (ii), (iii), (family (iv), (v), (vi)), (vii)

  Chesterton, G.K., (i)

  Cioran, E.M., (i)

  Cleopatra, (i), (ii)

  Clift, Montgomery, (i)

  Cocteau, Jean, (i), (ii)

  Coleridge, Francis, (i)

  Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  Coolidge, Constance, (i)

  Cornelius, Hans, (i)

  Costa, Margaret Jull, (i)

  Cowley, Malcolm, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Cowper, William, (i), (ii)

  Craigie, Jill, (i)

  Crane, Hart, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Cravan, Arthur, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Crevel, René, (i), (ii), (parents (iii)), (iv), (v)

  Crito, (i)

  Croft, Herbert, (i)

  Crosby, Caresse (Mary Phelps “Polly” Jacobs), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Crosby, Harry, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii)

  Crosby, Mrs (Harry’s mother), (i)

  Cross, Mr, (i)

  Crowley, Aleister, (i), (ii)

  Csath, Geza, (i), (ii)

  cummings, e.e., (i)

  Daghilev, Serge, (i)

  Dali, Salvador, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Darwin, Erasmus, (i)

  Davy, Humphry, (i)

  Dazai, Osama, (i)

  Debord, Guy, (i), (ii)

  Degen, Konrad, (i)

  Deleuze, Gilles, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Demetz, Peter, (i) (note 7)

  De Quincy, Thomas, (i)

  Desnos, Robert, (i), (ii)

  Diller, Phyllis, (i)

  Dobrolyubov, Alexander, (i)

  Doctorow, E.L., (i)

  Donne, John, (i)

  Donner-Grau, Florinda, (i)

  Dos Passos, John Roderigo, (i)

  Dostoyevsky, Feodor, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi)

  Dowling, Constance, (i), (ii)

  Dowson, Ernst, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Doyle, Conan, (i)

  Duckworth, George, (i), (ii)

  Duckworth, Gerard, (i), (ii)

  Duckworth, Herbert, (i)

  Duckworth, Stella, (i), (ii)

  Duvall, Jeanne, (i)

  Edgeworth, Maria, (i), (sister (ii))

  Einstein, Albert, (i)

  Ehrenburg, Ilya, (i)

  Eliot, George, (i)

  Eliot, T.S., (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Elizabeth II, Queen, (i)

  Eluard, Paul, (i)

  Empedocles, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Epictetus, (i), (ii)

  Faulkner, William Harrison, (i), (ii)

  Ficker, Ludwig von, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Fielding, Henry, (i)

  Fittko, Lisa, (i)

  Flaubert, Gustave, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Fliess, William, (i)

  Foot, Michael, (i)

  Ford, Maddox Ford, (i)

  Forster, E.M., (i)

  Fraenkel, Theodore, (i)

  Franco, General, (i)

  Frederick, The Great, (i)

  Freud, Sigmund, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Friedel, Egon, (i)

  Fromm, Erich, (i)

  Fuseli, Henry, (i), (ii)

  Fuseli, Mrs, (i)

  Garnett, Constance, (i)

  Gary, Romain, (i), (ii)

  Gautier, Théophile, (i)

  Gide, André, (i)

  Gerber, Arthur, (i), (ii)

  Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, (i), (ii)

  Godwin, William, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Goethe, Johannn Wolfgang von, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv)

  Gofman, Victor, (i)

  Gogol, Nikolai Vasilievich, (i)

  Goll, Yvan, (i)

  Gombrowicz, Witold, (i), (ii)

  Grashoff, Udo, (i)

  Green, Richard Lancelyn, (i)

  Greene, Graham, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

  Greer, Germaine, (i)

  Gründgens, Gustaf, (i)

  Gurdjieff, G.I., (i)

  Gurland, Henny, (i), (ii), (iii)
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br />   Gurland, Joseph, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Hedayat, Sadegh, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Hamsun, Knut, (i)

  Harris, Harold, (i)

  Hayman, Ronald, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Hearn, Lafcadio, (i)

  Heidegger, Martin, (i)

  Heine, Heinrich, (i)

  Heinle, Fritz, (i), (ii)

  Heinle, Wolf, (i)

  Heinrich, Karl, (i)

  Hellens, Franz, (i)

  Hemingway, Ernest, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

  Herd, Elizabeth, (i)

  Hesse, Hermann, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix)

  Hitler, Adolf, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Hoffmann, E.T.A., (i)

  Hölderlin, Johann Christian Friedrich, (i)

  Hollingdale, R.J., (i)

  Holmes, Richard, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Homer, (i), (ii)

  Horkheimer, Max, (i), (ii)

  Hotspur, Harry, (i)

  Houellebecq, Michel, (i)

  Howard, Robert E., (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Hughes, Frieda, (i), (ii)

  Hughes, Nicholas, (i), (ii)

  Hughes, Olwyn, (i)

  Hughes, Ted, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

  Hulse, Michael, (i)

  Hume, David, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Husserl, Edmund, (i), (ii)

  Hussey, Andrew, (i)

  Huxley, Aldous, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Imlay, Gilbert, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (lover (vii))

  Ingarden, Roman, (i)

  Iscariot, Judas, (i)

  James, Henry, (i)

  James, William, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Jamison, Kay Redfield, (i), (ii)

  Jammes, Francis, (i)

  Jarry, Alfred, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Jerusalem, Karl Wilhelm, (i)

  Jeffers, Robinson, (i)

  Jesus, Christ, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Johnson B.S, (i)

  Johnson, Dr, (i), (ii)

  Johnson, Jack, (i)

  Johnson, Joseph, (i), (ii)

  Jong, Erica, (i)

  Joyce, James, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Jowett, Benjamin, (i)

  Jung, Karl, (i), (ii)

  Junger, Ernst, (i)

  Juvenal, (i)

  Kafka, Franz, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Kaminsky, Vassily, (i)

  Kammerer, Paul, (i)

  Kandinsky, Vasily, (i)

  Kane, Sarah, (i), (ii)

  Kant, Emmanuel, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  Kawabata, Yasunari, (i)

  Keates, John, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Kelsall, Thomas Forbes, (i)

  Kerouac, Jack, (i), (ii)

  Kestner, Johann Christian, (i)

  Keynes, Maynard, (i)

  Kierkegaard, Soren Aaby, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Khlebnikov, Velimar, (i), (ii)

  Kingsborough, Lady, (i)

  Kleist, Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (cousin (vi)), (vii)

  Kleist, Ewald von, (i)

  Kleist, Marie von, (i)

  Kleist, Ulrike von, (i), (ii)

  Khodasevic, V.F., (i)

  Koestler, Cynthia (nee Jeffries), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (father (v))

  Koestler, Arthur, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (housekeeper (v), parents (vi))

  Kokoschka, Oscar, (i)

  Korzeniowska, Czeslawa, (i), (ii)

  Kozinski, Jerzy, (i)

  Kraus, Karl, (i), (ii)

  Kumine, Maxine, (i), (ii)

  Lajolo, Davide, (i), (ii)

  Lamartine, Alphonse Marie Louise de, (i)

  Lamba, Jacqueline, (i)

  Lambert, John, (i), (ii)

  Lang, Josef, (i)

  Lajeunesse, Ernest, (i)

  Landor, Walter Savage, (i)

  La Roche, Maximiliane von, (i)

  La Roche, Sophie, von, (i)

  Lawrence, D.H., (i)

  Leaska, Mitchell, (i) (note 20)

  Leger, Ferdinand, (i), (ii)

  Lenin, (i), (ii)

  Leonardo, da Vinci, (i)

  Lessing, Gottfried, (i), (ii)

  Levi, Primo, (i)

  Lewes, George Henry, (i)

  Lewis, Sinclair, (i)

  Lewis, Wyndham, (i), (ii)

  Lindsay, David, (i)

  Lindsay, Vachel, (i), (ii)

  Lockridge, Ross Jr, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  London, Jack, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Loos, Adolf, (i)

  Lort, Michael, (i)

  Louise (companion of Jacques Vaché), (i), (ii)

  Lovecraft, H.P., (i), (ii)

  Lowell, James Russell, (i)

  Lowell, Robert, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Lowry, Malcolm, (i), (ii)

  Loy, Mina, (i)

  Lucas, Victoria (pseudonym of Sylvia Plath), (i)

  Lucian, (i)

  Lucan, (i)

  Lucretius, (i)

  Lunacharsky, (i)

  Lvova, Nadechda, (i)

  Maass, Joachim, (i), (ii)

  Macpherson, James, (i)

  Mahler, Alma, (i)

  Mahler, Gustav, (i), (ii)

  Malinowski, Bronislaw, (i)

  Mainländer, Philipp (real name Batz), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  Malcolm, Janet, (i)

  Malraux, André, (i)

  Mann, Heinrich, (i)

  Mann, Klaus, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Mann, Thomas, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Marais, Eugene, (i)

  Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, (i)

  Marshall, William (pseudonym of Horace Walpole), (i)

  Mathiessen, F.O., (i)

  Marx, Eleanor, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Marx, Karl, (i)

  Masaryk, Jan, (i)

  Massine, Leonide, (i)

  Matisse, Henri, (i)

  Maude, Aylmer, (i)

  Maupassant, Guy de, (i)

  Mayakovsky, Lyudmila, (i)

  Mayakovsky, Vladimir, (i), (ii), (family (iii), (iv)), (v), (vi), (vii)

  Mayne, Ellen, (i) (note 54)

  Melville, Herman, (i)

  Merck, Johann Heinrich, (i)

  Meredith, George, (i)

  Meyer, Miss, (i)

  Meyerstein, E.H.W., (i), (ii), (iii)

  Meyneld, Wilfred, (i)

  Meyrink, Gustav, (i)

  Michaux, Henri, (i)

  Micinski, Tadeus, (i)

  Mikes, George, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Millay, Edna St. Vincent, (i)

  Miller, Arthur, (i)

  Milosz, Czeslaw, (i), (ii)

  Milosz, O.V de Lubicz, (i), (ii)

  Mishima, Yukio (Kimitake Hiraoka), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Modigliani, Amedeo, (i)

  Moliere, Jean Baptiste Poquelin, (i)

  Montaigne, (i)

  Monroe, Marilyn, (i)

  Montherland, Henry de, (i), (ii)

  Moore, George, (i)

  Moréas, (i)

  Morgan, J.P., (i), (ii), (iii)

  Morita, Masakatsu, (i), (ii)

  Morris, William, (i)

  Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, (i)

  Müller, Adam, (i)

  Munch, Edvard, (i)

  Muralto, Onuphrio (pseudonym of Horace Walpole), (i)

  Musil, Robert, (i)

  Myers, F.W., (i)

  Myers, L.H., (i), (ii), (iii)

  Napoleon, Bonaparte, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Naville, Pierre, (i)

  Nero, Roman Emperor, (i)

  Nerval, Gérard de, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Netchaev, Sergei, (i)

  Nicholl, Charles, (i)

  Nietzsche, Frederick, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)

  Nietzsche, Elizabeth, (i)

  Novalis, (pseudonym of Friedrich von Hardenberg), (i)

  Osborn, Tom, (i)

  O’Connor, Frank, (i)

  O’Healey, Áine, (i) (note 85)

  Orwell, George, (i)

  Pabst, G.W., (i)
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br />   Paget, Marmaine, (i)

  Paine, Tom, (i)

  Palamazaar, (i)

  Parker, Dorothy, (i)

  Parks, Tim, (i)

  Paracelsus, (i)

  Parini, Jay, (i)

  Partin, Patricia, (i)

  Pavese, Cesare, (i), (ii), (family (iii), (iv), (v))

  Paulhan, Jean, (i)

  Penzoldt, Ernst, (i)

  Percy, Walker, (i)

  Peregrinus, Proteus, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Perét, Bejamin, (i), (ii)

  Pessoa, Fernando, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Petain, Marshall, (i)

  Petronius, (i)

  Petrovskaya, Nina, (i)

  Philips, Richard, (i)

  Philolaus, (i)

  Picasso, Pablo, (i), (ii)

  Pierre-Quint, Leon, (i)

  Pindar, (i)

  Pinkerton, Percy, (i)

  Pizzardo, Tina, (i), (ii)

  Plath, Aurelia, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Plath, Otto, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Plath, Sylvia, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi)

  Plath, Warren, (i), (ii)

  Plato, (i), (ii)

  Plotinus, (i)

  Plutarch, (i)

  Poe, Edgar Allan, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Polizzotti, Mark, (i), (ii)

  Pollock, Jackson, (i)

  Polonskaya, Nora, (i), (ii)

  Potocki, Jan, (i), (ii)

  Pound, Ezra, (i), (ii)

  Price, Richard, (i)

  Prokofiev, Sergei Sergeevitch, (i)

  Pushkin, Alexander, (i), (ii)

  Rachmaninov, Sergius Vassilievich, (i)

  Raphael, Frederick, (i)

  Reed, Jeremy, (i)

  Resnais, Alain, (i)

  Riabushinsky, Nicolai, (i)

  Rigaut, Jacques, (i), (ii)

  Rhinehart, Luke, (i)

  Rilke, Rainer Maria, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Rimbaud, Jean Nicolas Arthur, (i), (ii)

  Roazen, Paul, (i)

  Rosenberg, Ethel, (i)

  Rosenberg, Julius, (i)

  Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, (i)

  Rousseau, Jean Jacques, (i), (ii)

  Rowley, Thomas (pseudonymn of Chatterton) (i), (ii), (iii)

  Rubenstein, Arthur, (i)

  Russell, Bertrand, (i)

  Sà-Carneiro, Mario de, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Salmon, André, (i)

  Sappho, (i)

  Sartre, Jean-Paul, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Satie, Erik, (i)

  Scammell, Michael, (i), (ii)

  Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich, (i)

  Scholem, Gershom, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Schulz, Bruno, (i)

  Scipio, Metellus, (i)

  Seabrook, William, (i)

  Sebastian, St, (i)

  Seberg, Jean, (i)

  Seligson, Rika, (i)

  Seneca, (i), (ii)

  Sexton, Anne, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (husband (xi))

  Sexton, Joy, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Sexton, Linda, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

 

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