Patron saint of desperate causes?
In a dramatic and not narrative form; with incidents arousing pity and terror.
Still, for all slips of hers,
One of Eve’s family—
Wipe those poor lips of hers
Oozing so clammily.
Dorothy Dandridge committed suicide.
Hearing of acquaintances who have died, alone, to be found by strangers.
According to indictments of the time, on May 23, 1450, Sir Thomas Malory raped the wife, Joan, of one Hugh Smyth, in Warwickshire.
On August 6, Malory raped said Joan again.
Joyce called How Much Land Does a Man Need?the greatest of all short stories.
Gaspara Stampa. Mihri Hatun. Louise Labé.
I think you’re more beautiful now than then. Rather than your face as a young woman, I prefer your face as it is now. Ravaged.
Quelqu’un vit sur cetteplage.
Alguien vive en este play a.
The end of his life in a shabby furnished room across the street from the railroad station in Frankfurt. Oskar Schindler.
Bernard Berenson was an anti-Semite.
Bernard Berenson was born a Jew.
Character! What is character! It’s tone that matters!
How shall we sing the Lord’s song
In a strange land?
One minute she was standing in the door.
Passchendaele.
The Tunning of Elynour Rumming.
When Leonardo died in France, in 1519, it was in the arms of the king, Francis I, who had come to his bedside. Insists Vasari.
Ipse dixit.
February 2nd. Joyce’s birthday.
And Protagonist’s daughter’s.
October 25th. Picasso’s.
And Protagonist’s son’s.
The first edition of Thus Spake Zarathustrasold forty copies. Nietzsche had had to pay for publication.
I count religion but a childish toy,
And hold there is no sin but ignorance.
Once more before he dies Protagonist will read Aristophanes.
Delacroix, on Ingres:
His art is the complete expression of an incomplete intelligence.
Demosthenes committed suicide with poison.
In the same year that Aristotle may have done so.
Grieg wrote his piano concerto at twenty-five.
And would produce nothing else of significance on a large scale in almost forty more years of composing.
Arnold Toynbee was an anti-Semite.
Orde Wingate.
I had been only a mediocre caretaker of most of the things left in my hands, even of my talent, Scott Fitzgerald said.
Capt. Wilfred Owen was an acting company commander, attempting to cross an enemy-held canal, when he was machine-gunned.
Wilhelm Furtwangler. Herbert von Karajan. Elisabeth Schwarzkopf. Alfred Cortot. Kirsten Flagstad. Walter Gieseking. Inextricably bedfellowed with the Nazis.
As was Gigli with the Italian fascists.
That nearby, Protagonist awakening mornings to the wash of the surf?
Mitigating, will it, the morning’s recollection of the emptiness of the day before?
Its anticipation of the emptiness of the day to come?
Thesmophoriazusae.
Anne Sexton sometimes allowed a recording of the Bachianas Brasileirasto replay itself endlessly when she was writing.
But now they that are younger than I have me
in derision,
Whose fathers I disdained to set with the dogs
of my flock.
The Virgin for those who have nobody them with.
André Malraux flew sixty-five missions as the commander of the Loyalist air force. And in World War II was captured twice by the Germans while a leader of the Resistance, and twice escaped.
Was Moses murdered in the wilderness?
Was willst du yfremder Mensch?
Bidú Sayão.
Freud and Frazer were immediate contemporaries. Freud read a good deal of Frazer. Frazer did not read one word of Freud.
Kurt Tucholsky committed suicide.
Henry Miller was an anti-Semite.
Les Nuits d’Été.The poems Gautier’s.
Whittier threw Leaves of Grassinto a fire.
Suffering Alzheimer’s disease, de Kooning once had to be prevented from eating a cigarette.
With kings and counsellors, murmured I.
Xanthus.
Why does it sadden Reader to realize he will almost certainly never know what book will turn out to be the last he ever read?
What piece of music, the last he ever heard?
Matthew 27:3–5 says that Judas hanged himself.
I am old, and can no longer work, and am without means of livelihood, and my wife is ill.
Said Paolo Uccello on a tax declaration in Florence in 1469.
Un grand peut-être.
Sacajawea.
Fanny Imlay committed suicide with laudanum.
Rubens was fifty-three when he married his second wife Hélène. Who was sixteen.
No more behind
But such a day tomorrow as today
And to be boy eternal.
The second Brandenburg concerto, on an indestructible phonograph disc, is drifting eternally in space affixed to Voyager II
Anna Comnena.
Alfonsina Storni drowned herself in the Mar del Plata. Having mailed off her final manuscript that morning.
Ninety feet between bases is the greatest invention of Western man.
Jean Giraudoux was an anti-Semite.
Cavafy, acknowledged as the great Greek poet of his time. Who lived his entire writing life in Egypt.
The names of the dead.
Stanley Badner.
Carlo Crivelli was once imprisoned in Venice for kidnapping and rape.
And later knighted in Naples for creating altarpieces like the Madonna della Rondine.