For during a tiny portion, Louis MacNeice, ‘Train to Dublin’, Collected Poems (London: Faber, 2007), 17
Departures
When I wake up, Bill Withers, ‘Lovely Day (Sunshine Mix)’. By Bill Withers and Skip Scarborough. Produced by Bill Withers and Clarence McDonald. Remix Ben Liebrand. Chelsea Music Publishing Company Ltd. CBS, 1988.Vinyl
Hull to Ferriby
It’s no use pretending, Noël Coward, Brief Encounter in Noël Coward Screenplays, ed. Barry Day (London: Bloomsbury, 2015), 300
All happy families are alike, Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, tr. Rosamund Bartlett (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), 3
St Petersburg to Moscow
‘Every heart has its own skeletons’, as the English say, Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, tr. Constance Garnett (London: Heinemann, 1977), 100
muffled, hoarfrost-covered driver, Anna Karenina, tr. Bartlett, 62
minute and infinitesimally small, Leo Tolstoy, ‘Why Do Men Stupefy Themselves?’, Essays and Letters, tr. Aylmer Maude (London: Grant Richards, 1903), 28
watch keeps time with the numberless watches of his readers, Vladimir Nabokov, Lectures on Russian Literature (New York: Harcourt, 1981), 141
Human error, ‘Hull Hospital Remembers 1927 Train Crash Victims’, BBC News, 10 February 2012, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-16978180; see also J. W. Pringle to the Ministry of Transport, ‘Report on the Accident that Occurred at Hull Paragon on 14 February 1927’, 13 April 1927, http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/docsummary.php?docID=308 and ‘Express Train Disaster (1927)’, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBBzLjExbp0
Ferriby to Brough
people who make art, Sheila Heti, ‘On the Subject of Artists Talking About Art’, Back to the World: Untimely Talk About Culture, 19 December 2012 https://backtotheworld.net/2012/12/19/sheila-heti-on-the-subject-of-artists-talking-about-art/
No more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall, Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008), 116
St Petersburg to Moscow
Men can do nothing without the make-believe of a beginning, George Eliot, Daniel Deronda (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), 3
English novels, see Sofia Tolstoy, diary entry for 23 October 1878, The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy, tr. Cathy Porter (Richmond: Alma Books, 2010), 53
Hackney Wick 2006
Summer in the city, ‘Somewhere in My Heart’, Aztec Camera (Michael Jonzun and Roddy Frame), vinyl record, WEA, 1987
Battery Place to Cortlandt Street
The last word is not said, Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), 163
all life and expression, ‘Photography in the Great Exhibition’, The Philadelphia Photographer, 184–186, quoted in Erin Pauwels, ‘Resetting the Camera’s Clock: Sarony, Muybridge & the Aesthetics of Wet-Plate Photography’, History and Technology: An International Journal, 31/4, 484
sick at heart, Kate Field, diary entry, 1 January 1869, quoted in Lilian Whiting, Kate Field: A Record (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1899), 196
acrobatic, airy and perched-up, New York Times, 12 January 1868
Brough to Goole
Miss you like, ‘Miss You Like Crazy’, Good to Be Back, written by Gerry Goffin, Michael Masser and Preston Glass, performed by Natalie Cole, 15 March 1989, produced by Michael Masser, EMI-USA, 1989, Vinyl
full front … natural look, Anthony Trollope to Kate Field, 18 June 1868, The Letters of Anthony Trollope, ed. John N. Hall, 2 volumes (Redwood City, CA: California), 1, 433
Can anything indeed in this part of life be ever said to be the end?, quoted in Whiting, 194
clock for seeing – ‘cameras, in short, were clocks for seeing’, Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography, tr. Richard Howard (London: Vintage, 2000), 15
Please, sir, I want, Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1966), 56
I attribute the power of doing this altogether, Anthony Trollope, An Autobiography and Other Writings, ed. Nicholas Shrimpton (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), 169
I’ll come to you, Anthony Trollope to Kate Field, 1 December 1876, Letters 2, 698
edge of dread, Adrienne Rich, ‘What Kinds of Times Are These’ in Collected Poems 1950–2012, ed. Claudia Rankine (New York: Norton, 2016), 755
Hackney Wick
I have decided that seeing this is worth recording, John Berger, ‘Understanding a Photograph’ in Classic Essays on Photography, ed. Alan Trachtenberg (Leete’s Island Books: Stony Creek, 1980), 292
West Finchley to Belsize Park
They were not railway children to begin with, Edith Nesbit, The Railway Children (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), 1
can only be relieved, J. G. Ballard, ‘Millennium People: Entertaining Violence’, Spike Magazine, see https://www.spikemagazine.com/0104jgballard
eternullity, see Maurice Blanchot’s review of Henri Lefebvre, ‘the everyday is our portion of eternity: the eternullity of which Laforgue speaks’, Maurice Blanchot, The Infinite Conversation, tr. Susan Hanson (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993), 245
I don’t like mountains, quoted in Richard Davenport-Hines, Auden (London: Minerva, 1995), 98
Baker Street to Moorgate Street
Annette believed in the telephone, Iris Murdoch, The Flight from the Enchanter (London: Random House, 2009), 242
pasticcio of rain, ‘Kate Field on London’, St Louis Globe Democrat, 8 November 1885, 169, 14
black fumes, shrill whistles, George Gissing, In the Year of Jubilee (Createspace, 2014), 146
small pear-shaped wooden instrument, Kate Field, The History of Bell’s Telephone (London: Bradbury, Agnew, 1878), 14–17, quoted in Gary Scharnhorst, Kate Field: The Many Lives of a Nineteenth-Century American Journalist (New York: Syracuse University Press, 2008), 126
every house will be connected, Kate Field, The History of Bell’s Telephone, 126
a large party of swells, Kate Field to Edmund Clarence Stedman, 14 March 1878, Kate Field: Selected Letters, ed. Carolyn J. Moss (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1996), 141
If you like it I will take you, Anthony Trollope to Kate Field, ‘Monday Morning’, circa 1873–80, Letters 2, 1000
If you are going out of town, let me know when you go, Anthony Trollope to Kate Field, 3 June 1868, Letters 1, 432
If you’ll go down close to the sea … as you please, Anthony Trollope to Kate Field, 8 July 1868, Letters 1, 437–8
black phantom, Anthony Trollope to Kate Field, 13 July 1868, Letters 1, 439
enveloped in buffalo furs, Anthony Trollope, ‘Miss Ophelia Gledd’, Early Short Stories, ed. John Sutherland (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994), 450
have liked to cross the Rocky Mountains, ibid.
ray of light, Anthony Trollope, An Autobiography, ed. Nicholas Shrimpton, 195
in the corner, ‘Recollections by Kate Field’, New York Tribune, 24 December 1880, quoted in Whiting, 397
one of the ‘taking’ things of the season, see the Hartford Courant, 20 March 1878, 1, quoted in Scharnhorst, 129
St Petersburg Station
l’exécution est de plus en plus difficile … parce que j’ai vidé mon sac, Gustave Flaubert, letter to Ernest Feydeau, January/February 1868, repr. in La Correspondance de Flaubert: étude et repertoire critique (Paris: Nizet, 1968), 519
My description of Brent Cross Shopping Centre is indebted to Nilu Zia’s ‘A Love Letter to Brent Cross, London’s Least Cool Shopping Centre’, Vice, 7 March 2016, https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/mvkawb/love-letter-40-years-of-brent-cross
microcosm of our world and identity, Kerry Potter, ‘What to Know When Buying a New Handbag’, The Pool, 21 February 2017, https://www.the-pool.com/fashion/fashion-honestly/2017/8/kerry-potter-on-what-to-know-when-buying-a-new-handbag
a particular fear: of injury, of discomfort, of boredom, of attack, quoted in Robert Moor, On Trails: An Exploration (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2016), 325
Perhaps even her tears. I owe this idea to the beautiful essay by Axelle Ropert, who writes of Mary Poppins’ bag ‘si ce sac généreux en démonstations colorées témoignait aussi de la pudeur de Mary, recelant toutes les larmes incolores que’elle a voulu garder pour elle?’, ‘12 films, 12 sacs. Une anthologie’ in Le Cas du Sac, sous la direction de Farid Chenoune (Paris: Hermès, 2004)
a womb veil, also known as the ‘Ladies’ patent shield’, or ‘The Wife’s Protector’ was available, in the late nineteenth century by mail order for about $6
Goole to Thorne North
You exhibitionist, P. J. Harvey, ‘Sheela-Na-Gig’, Dry, written by P. J. Harvey, produced by Rob Harvey and P. J. Harvey, performed by P. J. Harvey, 1992, Vinyl
All remaining references taken from The Times, 1875:
LOST, A CARRIAGE CLOCK, 4 January
FIVE POUNDS REWARD, 7 January
nothing of value … which are important only to the owner. See, for example, the entries for 15 December, 19 June, 14 October
a London dock warrant, 26 October
a cane of Brazilian palm, 16 January
a map of the British Channel, 25 November
an opal brooch, 18 May
a small case of surgical instruments, 4 August
BALLOON LOST, 12 August
AMULET, 30 August
WILL a Black Swan, 24 December
A young gentleman, age 26, 28 January, 2 February, 10 February, 11 February, 13 February
ONE HUNDRED POUNDS REWARD – MISSING, since 22nd January, a GENTLEMAN, 6 February
lost gold Albert chain, 4 January
FRED D.L., 4 January
a black bearskin carriage-rug, 21 May
LOST, on a Friday night, 15 January
LOST. – TWENTY POUNDS REWARD shall be given for a BROWN LEATHER CASE, 7 January
FRED D.L. – There will be a letter, 15 January
A.T. – If you return at once, 15 January
T. to W. – Meet me on Monday or Tuesday, 16 January
LOST, during the last fortnight, 23 January
LOST – A lady, on alighting from the train, 9 February
MOTHER, Dear, 6 February
BLACK BAG RECEIVED, 19 May
MANUSCRIPT LENT, 21 May
TWO POUNDS REWARD, 19 June
LOST, on Tuesday, either in Chapel-street or Belgrave-square, 17 June
BLACK PORTMANTEAU LOST, 14 August
LOST, a GOLD LOCKET, heart-shape, 23 June
FIVE POUNDS REWARD. – LOST, from the Paddington Terminus, 19 June
E.P., who left Eastbourne by the 2 p.m., 14 August
MISSING. – £10 REWARD. – LEFT SHEFFIELD, 18 August
MYSTERIOUSLY DISAPPEARED, 9 November
THE ONE OF THE VALLEY, 16 October
Mrs T, see, for examples, adverts placed on 13 October 1871, 20 December 1872, 17 October 1873, 20 December 1873
‘W.’ writes that he wishes to see his friend at 96, 26 January
TO C. – Do not fear, 19 May
Have you forgotten me and the pretty gardens?, 12 October
HENRY. – Nothing is known, 16 October
BR. – Same address, 9 February
Thorne North to Doncaster
mess terrorist, Eric Abrahamson and David H. Freedman, A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder (New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2014), 100
Moscow to St Petersburg
Am I myself, Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, tr. Joel Carmichael (New York: Bantam Books, 1978), 106
The railroad is to travel as a whore is to love, Tolstoy to Turgenev, 1857, see Moisei Altman, Chitaia Tolstogo (1966), 118, rep. in Daniel Rancour-Laferriere, Tolstoy on the Couch (London: Macmillan, 1998), 59
good accustomed, Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, tr. Louise and Aylmer Maude (Ware: Wordsworth, 1999), 98
loss of limbs, eyes, Instructions to Station Agents: Railway Passengers Assurance Company, 1897, 29 and Advert for the Railway Passengers Assurance Company https://www.picclickimg.com/d/l400/pict/263447997237_/Vintage-1950s-Railway-Passengers-Assurance-Company-Ticket.jpg. I am grateful to Christopher Gray and David Turner for their help with this information, and to Dr Turner’s blog entry on railway insurance at http://turniprail.blogspot.com/2011/05/at-time-of-catastrophe-railway.html
vibrations, see Charles Malchow, The Sexual Life: Embracing the Natural Sexual Impulse (St Louis: C. V. Mosby, 1915), 57
Sheffield to Birmingham New Street
forcing-house, E. M. Forster, Howards End (London: Random House, 1999), 191
the secret of reading, George Measom, ‘Introduction’, The Official Illustrated Guide to the South-Eastern Railway, and Its Branches (London: Lowe and Brydon, 1858)
Bologoye Station
And when I say you, Rainald Goetz, Insane, tr. Adrian Nathan West (London: Fitzcarraldo, 2018), 22
Am I myself or someone else, Anna Karenina, tr. Joel Carmichael (New York: Bantam, 2006), 120
tearing and whistling around the corner, Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, tr. Bartlett, 102
their steps crackling, Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, tr. Garnett, 105
quivering light flashing her eyes, Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, tr. Maude, 79
both frightened her and made her happy, Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, tr. Maude, 101–2
describe all the complexity of those feelings, Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, tr. Maude, 147
No single word in English, Vladimir Nabokov, Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse, by Alexander Pushkin, tr. Nabokov (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1964), 2, 141
shrined in double retirement, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (London: Penguin, 1985), 39
You are inside it; it is inside you, Georges Poulet, ‘The Phenomenology of Reading’, New Literary History, 1/1 (October 1969), 54
a vast dying sea, Nicholson Baker, U & I (London: Granta, 1991), 32
dreaming lettuce in the garden, see W. G. Sebald, Austerlitz (London: Penguin, 2011), 134
Ghost Train
pure love. None will do, Leo Tolstoy, diary entry for 10 March 1906 in the Jubilee Edition of Tolstoy’s Collected Works, 55: 374
most observed of all observers, Whiting, 54
The only one she adored, see Field’s diary entry ‘He was the only one whom I adored’, Whiting, 66
so sad, so strange, so desolate. Where shall I find, see Whiting, 75, 59
Your Father, Kate Field, Planchette’s Diary (New York: Redfield Press, 1868), 11
They were all dying, Trollope, Autobiography, 28
as he had lived, peaceably … death, Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers (London: J. M. Dent, 1931), 5, 7
fleetness of time, Kate Field, Diary 1 January 1869, quoted in Whiting, 196
Losing a parent is not like having your house bombed, Malcolm Gladwell, David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits and the Art of Battling Giants (London: Penguin, 2014), 86
Finchley Central to Burnt Oak
Of course there is a little danger, Anthony Trollope, The American Senator, ed. John Halperin (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991), 252
a cascade of secondary losses, adapted from Kathryn H. Howell et al., ‘Children Facing Parental Cancer v. Parental Death’, JCFS, 25 (2016), 153
life issues including depression, criminal or disruptive behaviours … self-concept and self-esteem and early sexual activity, Al Aynsley Green et al., ‘Bereavement in Childhood: Risks, Consequences and Responses’, BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care, 40 20.20 (2011), 1
not-to-die-of-ignorance, see TBWA’s public information film, ‘AIDS: Don’t Die of Ignorance’ (1987)
Chalk Farm to Belsize Park
Then practice losing, Elizabeth Bishop, ‘One Art’, Complete Poems (London: Chatto & Windus, 1991), 178
To suck out all the marrow of life, see Henry David Thoreau as quoted by Neil Perry in Tom Schulman’s Dead Poets Society (1989)
athlete of the clock, John Updike, Marry Me (London: Penguin, 2008), 2. I was reminded of this passage from Updike, and alerted to its significance in relation to time and death by Katie Roiphe’s chapter on John Updike in her brilliant The Violet Hour: Great Writers at the End (London: Virago, 2016). My discussion in this paragraph is indebted to her thinking.
The art of losing, Elizabeth Bishop, ‘One Art’, Complete Poems (London: Chatto & Windus, 1991), 178
Birmingham New Street to Leamington Spa
’cause we were never being boring, Pet Shop Boys, ‘Being Boring’, repr. in Neil Tennant, One Hundred Lyrics and a Poem (London: Faber, 2018), 11
nursing, eating, drinking, Sofia Tolstoy, Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy, 25 February 1865, tr. Porter, 24
I wish something would happen soon, Sofia Tolstoy, Diaries, 3 November 1864, 23
There is no such thing as love, Sofia Tolstoy, Diaries, 14 December 1890, 79
I am a piece of household furniture, Sofia Tolstoy, Diaries, 13 November 1863, 20
idiorhythmic, see Roland Barthes, How to Live Together: Novelistic Simulations of Some Everyday Spaces (New York: Columbia University Press, 2002), 6 and passim
Elephant and Castle
Getting away with it, Electronic, ‘Getting Away With It’, Electronic, written by Johnny Marr, Bernard Sumner and Neil Tennant, produced by Bernard Sumner, Johnny Marr and Neil Tennant, performed by Electronic, Factory, 1989, Vinyl
Paddington
‘It won’t do’, Henry James, The Golden Bowl, ed. Virginia Llewellyn Smith (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), 82
Euston to Inverness
Levin had been married three months, Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, tr. Maude, 476
delicious dream, adapted from Lydia Child, The Frugal Housewife: Dedicated to Those Who Are Not Ashamed of Economy (London: T.T. and J. Tegg, 1832), 124
falling in love, Leo Tolstoy, ‘Family Happiness’ in The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), 150
difficult to imagine anything more unsympathetic, New York Times, 15 November 1874
neither young nor handsome, quoted in Scharnhorst, 108
racetrack but a sort of Peacock Alley, John Malcolm Brinnin, The Sway of the Grand Saloon: A Social History of the North Atlantic (London: Macmillan, 1971), 240
protesting stomachs … shivering timbers, Kate Field, ‘At Sea’ in Hap-Hazard (Cambridge: Welch, Bigelow & Co., 1873), 94
excessively pretty – intelligent and piquante, Globe review, rep. in letter from Kate Field to Edmund Clarence Stedman, Letters, 1 May 1876, 123, 122
Very delightful. Very difficult, Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, tr. Maude, 476
the real satisfactions of a woman’s life, Kate Field, diary entry, 20 January 1869, quoted in Whiting, 204
I am misunderstood, Kate Field, diary entry, 18 January 1869, quoted in Whiting, 204
Carnforth
Just hang a light, ‘The Engineer’s Child’, also known as ‘The Red and the Green’ and ‘Just Set a Light’. First published as ‘Just Set a Light’ with words by Henry V. Neal and music by Gussie L. Davis, 1896 (New York: Howley, Haviland & Co, 1896). Since recorded by Hank Snow and Johnny Cash
at her own pace, imperturbably, Barthes, How to Live Together, 9
there will be dying, Derek Mahon, ‘Everything Is Going to Be All Right’, Collected Poems (Oldcastle: Galley Press, 1999), 38
Tenway Junction
It is a marvellous place, Anthony Trollope, The Prime Minister, ed. Nicholas Shrimpton (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), 458
Her little red handbag, Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, tr. Maude, 757
Where am I?, Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, tr. Bartlett, 771
Grand Central to Utah
I only desire to be myself, Kate Field in the Boston Traveller, 28 September 1882, quoted in Scharnhorst, 249
kindly … inimitable, ‘Anthony Trollope’, The Times, 7 December 1882, 6
My marriage was like, Trollope, An Autobiography, 50
It’s time, Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, tr. Bartlett, 114
loving husband, a loving father and a true friend, see Victoria Glendinning, Trollope (London: Hutchinson, 1992), 501
the nature of a fit, New York Times, 6 November 1882
except that the power of speech, The Times, 14 November 1882
losing his strength, The Times, 2 December 1882
critical, The Times, 5 December 1882
an author at once so comfortable and so pleasant, New York Times, 7 December 1882
I was adored once, too, Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act II.3. 1. 179
Trollope kills me, N. N. Glisev, Chronicle of the Life and Work of L. N. Tolstoy (Moscow, 1928), 315
American woman, Trollope, An Autobiography, 195
Mormon monster, see Whiting, 448
Don’t talk to me about the equality of the sexes, Kate Field, Kate Field’s Washington, 11/11, 16 March 1895
which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion, W. H. Auden, A Certain World: A Commonplace Book, rep. in Prose 1969–1973, ed. Edward Mendelson (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015), 6, 189
Kodak-distant, Philip Larkin, ‘Whatever Happened?’, Collected Poems, ed. Anthony Thwaite (London: Faber, 1988), 74
All happy families resemble one another, Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, tr. Nathan Dole (London, 1889), 1
Leamington to Banbury
Helpe me to seke, Thomas Wyatt, ‘Helpe me to seke’, Sir Thomas Wyatt: Poems, selected by Alice Oswald (London: Faber, 2008), xxiv
By digging into our souls, Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, tr. Maude, 144
a loaded gun, Stacy Schiff, Véra: Mrs Vladimir Nabokov: A Biography (London: Random House, 1999), 197
personal … public … consenting not to be a single being, ‘Interview with Maggie Nelson’, Atlas Review, https://www.theatlasreview.com/maggie-nelson/. I am indebted to Nelson’s brilliant discussion of the categories of personal and public in this interview. As she writes, ‘Honestly words like personal, private, intimate, don’t have an enormous amount of meaning to me right now … I’m into the complexities of the traffic between the individual and the group, into thinking about what Fred Moten means when he, after Glissant, talks about “consenting not to be a single being”. This conversation is far more intriguing and urgent to me than any rehashing of the binary of the private and the public (a conversation in which women and people of colour and transgender folk and so on don’t usually fare very well, as their bodies tend to disrupt/be excluded from a particular conceptualisation of the “public”, so the dice are loaded before the roll.’
family idea, see Sofia Tolstoy, Diary, quoting Leo Tolstoy ‘For a work to be good, one has to love in it the main, fundamental idea. And so, in Anna Karenina, I love the family idea’, 3 March 1877, quoted in Liza Knapp, Anna Karenina and Others (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2016), 249; Leo Tolstoy, ‘Family Happiness’ in The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories, 83
not to get the central pair together, Stanley Cavell, Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press 1981), 2, 127
Banbury
have a ‘case’, Henry James, ‘Preface’, Wings of the Dove (London: Penguin, 2008), 7
risk what I value, see Jeanette Winterson, Guardian, 2 October 2001, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/oct/02/gender.uk1
That has been said. The previous sentence paraphrases W. H. Auden’s statement that the ‘absolutely banal is my sense of my own uniqueness’, The Dyer’s Hand (New York: Vintage, 1989), 95
Dying, Egypt, dying, William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act IV. 15. 1. 18
Oxford
Hold on, Yazz and the Plastic Population, ‘The Only Way Is Up’. By George Jackson and Johnny Henderson. Produced by Jonathan More and Matt Black (Coldcut). Big Life. 1988. Vinyl
describe Emma Bovary’s sunshade, Vladimir Nabokov, Lectures on Literature (London: Mariner, 1982), 385, and the Nabokov archive in Cornell – I am grateful to L Deladurantaye’s article ‘Kafka’s Reality and Nabokov’s Fantasy’, Comparative Literature, 59/4, 315–331, 318, for guiding me to this
one should notice and fondle, Vladimir Nabokov, Lectures on Literature, 1
she has a child, Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, tr. Maude, 685
a children’s book, ibid., 685
All disguise in Shakespeare is benevolent, Oxford University, Honour School of English Language and Literature 1999–2001
There are two copies of this book that matter, Kate Gross, Late Fragments: Everything I Want to Tell You (About this Magnificent Life) (London: William Collins, 2015), front matter
Here’s the catch, Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts (London: Melville House, 2016), 45
sly state of half becoming, Hilary Mantel, Giving Up the Ghost: A Memoir (London: 4th Estate, 2010), 229
Not known, because not looked for, T. S. Eliot, Little Gidding in Four Quartets (London: Faber, 1950), 44
less important than the fact that they do whatever it is together, that they know how to spend time together, Cavell, Pursuits of Happiness, 88
banal commonplace that everyone knows, Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook (London: 4th Estate, 2013), 283
cancel myself out, ibid., 283
byway of tenderness, Gérard Genette, Palimpsests: Literature in the Second Degree (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997), 120
The last word is not said, Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), 163
