Chapter 2: Addicted to Dreams
1. Bizarrely enough, the house eventually attracted a real-life horror. About ten years after I left town, a family of child molesters moved in, the subject of a famous documentary film entitled Capturing the Friedmans.
Chapter 4: A Christmas Carol
1. Comedian Jon Lovitz would later create a similar character with the same name on the TV show Saturday Night Live, but my dad beat him to it by about a quarter of a century.
Chapter 5: Tough Guys
1. Some articles say Vertigo was never aired. I think they’re wrong. But my father sometimes brought home movies and showed them on a projector in our basement. It’s possible I saw it that way. In any case, I saw the film when I was young.
2. Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1939).
3. Raymond Chandler, The Simple Art of Murder (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1950).
4. Raymond Chandler Speaking, ed. by Dorothy Gardiner and Kathrine Sorley Walker (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1962).
Chapter 7: Experience
1. In developing this technique, I was ahead of my time. I suspect many university English professors and newspaper literary critics are using it today.
Chapter 10: Going Crazy
1. M. H. Abrams, Natural Supernaturalism: Tradition and Revolution in Romantic Literature (New York: Norton, 1971).
Chapter 11: Five Epiphanies
1. John Keats, “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” poets.org. This poem is in the public domain.
2. Marquis de Sade, Philosophy in the Bedroom (New York: Grove Press, 1971).