Lucretius committed suicide.
Eliot’s first wife Vivien was in a mental institution for the nine years before her death in 1947.
Joyce’s daughter Lucia was in a mental institution for the forty-six years before her death in 1982.
James Joyce’s daughter.
Thersites. Who mocked.
It was the first Ptolemy, Ptolemy Soter, who was told by Euclid that there was no royal road to geometry.
Rilke never read a daily newspaper.
The man who is tired of London is tired of life.
Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi.
Pons asinorum.
Quod erat demonstrandum.
One of Sergei Esenin’s wives was Isadora Duncan. Another later married Meyerhold. The third was a granddaughter of Tolstoy.
Cithaeron.
Sappho’s poetry was burned at least three times by the Church. Fewer than seven hundred lines remain out of probably twelve thousand, with most of those forming only fragments.
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenterscoming from one of such.
In the basement of the house on the beach, an old-style wood stove?
A fireplace, presumably part of the renovation?
Wood corded near the base of the dune outside?
Dieu me pardonnera. C’est son metier.
Ludwig Boltzmann committed suicide.
Wilkie Collins maintained two households simultaneously. Both with mistresses.
Lunar caustic.
Zbigniew Herbert.
Degas was an anti-Semite.
Protagonist also recalling sweltering recent summers when imprisoned in the city? Surely the beach, but even the gatehouse, a significant reprieve?
He has licked dust from the floor of every third-rate hostess in England.
Said Harold Frederic of Henry James.
Stendhal was an officer with Napoleon’s armies in the retreat from Moscow in 1812.
Sebastian Dangerfield.
Jack London was illegitimate.
In Act II of Troilus and Cressida,Shakespeare allows Hector to mention Aristotle. Who will not be born until some nine hundred years after the fact.
dein goldenes Haar Margarete
dein aschenes Haar Sulamith
According to legend, Li Po drowned when he fell out of a boat, drunk, leaning to kiss a reflection of the moon.
If a picture of the Virgin is to be any good, I must paint it from a drawing of a woman I sleep with. Said Stanley Spencer.
Mythologies and Me.
Che farò senza Euridice?
Eduard Marxsen.
Anselm Kiefer.
Only the Americans didn’t give me a visa.
Standing a little apart, Wilhelm began to cry.
Milton suffered from constipation.
Kathleen Ferrier. Dame Janet Baker. General Jackie Home.
Jack Kerouac lived with his mother for most of the last twenty years of his life.
Samuel Pepys attended a performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dreamat the King’s Theater in 1662.
The most ridiculous, insipid play I ever saw in my life.
Paul Christman. Jack Crain. Bill Dudley. John Kimbrough.
That’s not writing, that’s typing.
She is older than the rocks among which she sits.
From Michelangelo:
Messer Giorgio Vasari — Many days ago I received a letter from you; I did not reply at once in order not to behave like a merchant.
César Vallejo wrote more than half of the Poemas Humanosduring four months very near his death.
Renan, at the unveiling of a statue of Spinoza:
Woe to him who in passing should hurl an insult at this gentle and pensive head.
And my poor fool is hang’d!
Sir John Suckling committed suicide.
Babi Yar.
Gabriel Spencer.
Fifteen years after Moby Dick,Melville had to pay to publish ClarelWith borrowed money.
Fichte was an anti-Semite.
Stravinsky studied composition under Rimsky-Korsakov. As did Glazunov. As did Respighi.
Eliot wore a truss.
Robert Greene died after overindulging on pickled herring and Rhenish wine.
Kuznetsov.
Yevtushenko. The Shostakovich Thirteenth.
Edgar Lee Masters was once the law partner of Clarence Darrow.
Mathis Neithardt-Gothardt.
Frank Frisch’s name was misspelled in the first edition of The Sun Also Risesin 1926 and not corrected in any later edition Reader ever glanced into.
E avanti a lui tremava tutta Roma!
Alys Smith.
Dora Black.
Patricia Spence.
Edith Finch.
Suppose the woman should cease to come to the grave?
What happens in regard to the woman in any event?
Or is Reader again envisioning some sort of similar situation at the ocean?
Protagonist walking the beach, at water’s edge, perhaps at a certain hour each day? Here a woman who does the same?
Vereda de Santa Fe.
Piazza San Francesco di Paola.
Leonardo’s notebooks indicate familiarity with at least five different works by Aristotle.
Lenin wrote a foreword for Ten Days that Shook the World,
Sing at noon? Madame, at noon I am happy to be able to spit.
Said Chaliapin.
Obviously, a nod. Fairly soon an innocuous comment in passing?
John Ringo committed suicide.
Were Jesus and Mary Magdalen lovers? In the Gnostic Gospels, the specific word for her relationship with him translates from the Greek as consort.
Lady Ottoline Morrell.