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Wittgenstein’s Mistress: An Index

A while back, I published an index for Wittgenstein’s Mistress. Blake’s recent post about WM got me thinking that I should repost it here. Please feel free to copy/distribute it/whatever; my goal is to assist anyone reading or doing research on the book, which I think one of the two greatest novels of the past 25 years.

Notes:

  1. Be warned! I’m sure there are errors. (If you find any, please let me know, as well as any other revisions, comments, or suggestions.)
  2. Underlined entries are incomplete; underlined page numbers are uncertain. (If you can expand/confirm any of these in the comments, I’ll update the index, thanks!)

The Index

  • Achilles: 8, 21–2, 24–5, 40, 62–3, 83, 87, 94–5, 98, 101–3, 127, 137, 146–7, 151–2, 154, 194
  • accoutrements: 87
  • Acropolis, the: 42, 45, 54, 109
  • Adam: child 9; husband 24, 222–3, 225–7
  • Adriatic Sea, the: 18–9, 22
  • Aegean (southern): 73
  • Aegean Sea, the: 19, 22, 43, 102, 235
  • Aeschylus: 16, 38, 81, 151, 154, 197
  • Agamemnon: 24–5, 44, 86, 151, 196–8, 201–2
  • Akhmatova, Anna: 73, 84, 162, 208, 229
  • alarm clock: see clock, alarm
  • Alaska: 16
  • Alexander the Great: 97–9, 127, 137
  • Alexandra (Cassandra): 97
  • Alexandros (Paris?): 97
  • Allegheny, the: 192
  • Alto Rhapsody, The: 23, 37–8, 46, 117, 151, 173, 213, 240
  • America: 215, 234; see United States, the
  • American Colonial Room: 25
  • Amsterdam: Netherlands 12, 139, 142, 157; New York 83
  • ankle, broken/sprained: 49, 50–1, 63, 130, 183, 189, 220–1
  • Anna Karenina: 93, 172, 229
  • Arabia: 178–9, 229
  • Archimedes: 60, 62, 109, 146, 159, 179–80
  • Argos: 215
  • Argus: 203–6, 228
  • Aristotle: 43, 60, 97, 100, 112, 137
  • Arno, the: 13, 36, 58, 104, 231
  • arthritis: 131, 160–1, 183, 220–1
  • Astyanax: 97, 235
  • Athens: 9, 42–4, 109
  • atlas: 151, 181, 197, 237–8
  • August (month): 237
  • Avril, Jane: 61, 92, 98, 112, 125, 169
  • Bach: 118–9, 123, 174, 234
  • Bach ianas Brasileiras: 213, 218
  • Baez, Joan: 15, 77, 113, 209
  • baggage: mental 15, 17, 19, 72–3, 87, 189; physical 30, 52, 107, 169
  • Barthes, Jacques: 211, 218
  • baseball: 53–4, 60, 62–3, 95–6, 116, 119, 161, 164, 178, 190
  • Baseball when the Grass Was Real: 54, 63, 95–6, 116, 190
  • Bayonne, New Jersey: 34, 52
  • beach: 114, 126, 129, 193, 233, 239–40
  • Beethoven (book): 93, 95, 101
  • Beethoven: 92–3, 95, 100, 115, 169, 235; Beethoven’s 9th Symphony 100
  • Bellini, Gentile: 111
  • Bellini, Giovanni: 61, 105, 111, 137
  • Bellini, Vincenzo: 104–5, 111, 169
  • Bering Strait, the: 16, 70
  • Berlioz, Hector: 15, 64, 117, 152, 173
  • Bethlehem: Israel 29; Pennsylvania 81
  • Bidú, Sayão: 213
  • blindness: 125–6, 130, 167, 192
  • Bordeaux: 52, 175
  • Borghese Gallery, the: 67, 70, 108, 187
  • Botticelli: 138
  • bottles, broken: 128–9, 152–3
  • Bourdeaux: 12
  • Brahms: 115
  • Brahms’ mother: 64
  • Brahms, Johannes: 23, 37–9, 46–7, 51, 54–5, 61, 64–5, 73, 75–6, 79, 82, 84, 93, 95, 98, 100, 111, 115, 118–9, 124–5, 151, 168–9, 170, 173, 191, 213, 237–9; Brahms’s First Symphony 100; A Life of Brahms, A 93, 98, 115; The Life of Brahms 98, 115
  • Brando, Marlon: 94, 178, 207
  • Briseis: 101, 103
  • Broken Bottles, The: 153, 219
  • Brontës, the: 105, 172; sisters 20, 97; Branwell 97; Emily 96–7, 126, 134, 154, 186
  • Brooke, Rupert: 59, 102–3, 127, 147, 162, 235
  • Brooklyn Dodgers: 119, 121
  • Bruegel: 36, 235
  • Brunelleschi: 35, 104, 234; Brunelleschi’s dome 35, 104, 234
  • Buddhist antiquities: 189
  • Butler, Samuel: 102–3, 118, 165
  • Byzantine antiquities: 189
  • Byzantium: 70
  • Cádiz: 43, 84–5, 175
  • Caesar, Julius: 29, 127
  • Caligula: 59
  • Callas, Maria: 26, 104–6, 108, 110–2, 116, 136, 175, 207
  • Calpurnia: 59, 187
  • Calvary: 120
  • Cambridge: 170, 191, 220
  • Campy: see Campanella, Roy “Campy”
  • Campanella, Roy “Campy”: 191 (presumably), 121, 190; conflated with Charles “Casey” Stengel 212; see also Stengel, Charles “Casey”
  • Canary Islands, the: 43
  • canvas: 24–5, 37, 44–5, 48–51, 59, 64, 130, 183, 187–8, 188, 233
  • Cassandra: 43–4, 47, 70, 96–7, 145–6, 151–2, 188, 197, 198–200, 202
  • castle in La Mancha: 32, 39, 94, 158, 229, 240
  • cat: 22, 28, 31, 37, 132, 144, 200, 202–3, 215–8, 227; cat at the Colosseum 28–30, 36, 42, 59, 61, 85, 133–4, 144, 217, 231; Rembrandt (Kate’s russet cat) 132–5, 143–4, 149–50, 203, 206, 208–10, 215, 216, 217, 220–1, 223, 225; cat that Medea gave Helen 217; Rembrandt’s cat 59, 134, 203–6, 216–7; scratching tape 26, 38, 62–4, 133–4, 138, 144, 148, 217, 220, 239; Vincent? 145?, 150?, 239; Simon’s 134, 222–225, 227
  • Catholic Church: 166
  • Central Park: 52
  • Cervantes: 157–8
  • Cézanne: 24, 138, 154
  • Cherubini, Luigi: 104, 110–1
  • children: 123–6, 141, 169–70, 196–9, 224–5, 234–5
  • China: 17
  • Christians, the: 28, 144, 150
  • Churchill, Winston: 20, 177, 207
  • cigarettes: 19, 119, 158–9, 204
  • Cimabue: 137, 145, 148–9
  • Cléopatre: 61, 92
  • clock, alarm: 27, 143, 196
  • clothes: 130, 148, 150, 155–6, 184, 240; shirts; skirts; soccer shirt 238–9, 239; underpants 155–6, 184
  • Clytemnestra: 16, 24, 25, 82, 151, 177, 179, 196–9, 201–2
  • Colosseum, the: 28–30, 36, 42, 59, 61, 85, 133–4, 144, 217, 231
  • Connecticut, Southern: 48, 109, 219
  • Constantinople: 70
  • Convent Garden: 73, 131
  • Corinth, Greece: 109
  • Corinth, Mississippi: 27
  • Corinth, NY: 132–3, 135
  • Crete: 155, 158
  • Cuernavaca: 30, 134
  • Cyclades Islands, the: 73
  • Damascus, Syria: 29, 229
  • Damnation of Faust: 173
  • Danube, the: 192
  • Dardenelles: 8–9, 59, 102, 235
  • Dares the Phrygian: 155
  • Dasein: 215
  • Daumier: 130, 134, 138
  • David: 148
  • David, Jacques Louis: 155
  • da Vinci, Leonardo: 36, 58–9, 68–9, 81, 86, 123–4, 148, 185, 232
  • Degas: 130–1
  • de Kooning, William: 56, 135–6, 138, 140, 143, 145–50, 203, 228
  • del Sarto, Andrea: 36, 58, 130–1, 137, 235
  • de la Cruz, Sor Juana Inés: 18, 20, 72, 93, 165–6, 173, 217, 235; as Sister Joan Inez of the Cross 217
  • de Maupassant, Guy: 42, 61, 100, 111, 121–2, 234
  • Delft: 120, 140–1, 143, 186, 206
  • della Francesca, Piero: 83, 87, 130, 139, 145
  • de Oca, Marco Antonio Montes: 18, 20, 84, 93, 166–7, 173, 210
  • depression: 83–5, 88, 221–2, 227–9, 232
  • Descent from the Cross, The: 12, 87, 116, 233
  • di Cosimo, Piero: 87, 105, 130, 139, 235
  • Dictys of Crete: 155
  • Don Quixote de la Mancha: novel 18, 39, 158, 229; fictional character 158, 229
  • Donatello: 35, 137, 234
  • Donizetti, Gaetano: 110–1
  • Dostoievski, Fyodor: 17, 108, 112, 125, 154, 229
  • Dürer, Albrecht: 105, 172
  • Dutch: ethnicity 135, 138; language 142–3
  • Egypt: of antiquity 51; dead Egyptians 97, 231
  • Eiffel Tower, the: 42, 87, 122, 219, 234; book The Eiffel Tower 96, 219
  • El Greco: 18, 39, 44, 61, 82, 129–30, 150, 157, 191
  • Electra: 16, 25, 47, 177, 179, 188, 197–9, 202; as Elektra 179
  • English (language): 45, 48, 164, 172, 176–7, 179, 207, 215–6
  • equidistance: 91, 127, 144–5, 149–50, 158, 225, 232
  • Erased de Kooning Drawing: 56
  • Esther (Kate’s aunt): 26, 167, 235
  • Euripides: 16, 26, 38, 45, 81, 101, 111–2, 154, 164, 194–6,
  • Europe: 8, 26
  • Fabritius, Carel: 120, 140–3, 147–50, 186, 204, 206, 222
  • Fallen Tree Avenue: 212
  • father (Kate’s): 68–9, 119, 226
  • Faust: 173
  • Faust: 173
  • Faust Symphony: 173
  • Ferrier, Kathleen: 38, 48, 51, 55, 113, 115, 169, 213
  • fire: 129–30, 152–3, 155, 195, 205, 220, 224, 231, 238–9
  • First Symphony: see Brahms, Johannes
  • Flagstad, Kirsten: 46, 52, 113–4, 213
  • Flaubert, Gustave: 111, 121, 200
  • Florence: 13, 35–6, 58, 104, 106, 193, 234
  • Four Last Songs: 51, 114–5, 118, 218
  • Four Serious Songs: 51, 115
  • framed snapshot of Kate’s son: 167, 227
  • Frankenthaler, Helen: 72, 211
  • French: ethnicity 173, 131; language 78
  • Gaddi, Taddeo: 27, 36, 58, 143, 144–5, 158, 217
  • Gaddis, William: 27, 36, 84–5, 93, 143–4, 150, 210, 214
  • Galileo: 159, 167, 179–80, 185–6, 206
  • Galway Bay, Ireland: 174–5, 218
  • garbage disposal area: 128–9, 132–3, 152–3, 217–9
  • Gaugin: 131–2, 154, 191
  • Gazelle: 61, 92
  • Gehrig, Lou: 119, 190; as Stan Gehrig 235; see also Lou Gehrig’s Disease
  • Gentileschi, Artemisia: 159, 166–7, 212, 228
  • Germany: 173; German language 164, 168, 172, 177, 181, 206; German people 173–4
  • gesso: 24, 37, 44–5, 188, 233
  • Ghiberti: 137
  • Gioconda, La: 81–2; see Mona Lisa, The
  • Giorgione: 137
  • Giotto: 36, 67, 87, 137, 144–5, 148–50, 189, 217, 234
  • Goethe: 172–3
  • Gombrich, E.H.: 211
  • Gonoud: 173
  • Goya, Francisco de: 18, 132
  • Greece: 9, 18–19, 47–8, 109, 112, 152, 197; Greek language 43, 45, 56–57, 158, 164, 177, 193, 231; Greek people 8, 13, 39–40, 43, 60, 70, 93, 98, 103–4, 194, 239; Greek antiquity 51
  • Greek plays (ancient): 16, 37–8, 96, 102, 164, 177, 195, 197
  • Greek ships*: 86, 126, 194–6
  • Greer, Germaine: 60, 209
  • Hades: 154
  • Hals, Frans: 138
  • Hampstead Heath: 11, 73
  • Handel, George Frederick: 169, 192
  • Hébuterne, Jeanne: 103, 155, 235
  • Hector: 22, 25, 44, 93–4, 97, 102, 137, 151–2, 235
  • Hecuba: 93–4
  • Heidegger, Martin: 72, 95–6, 99, 167–8, 171–2, 206–7, 215–6, 223
  • Helen (narrator): 228; see also Kate
  • Helen of Troy: 8, 16, 21, 23–6, 40, 58–60, 70, 82, 93, 96–8, 103, 124, 126, 152, 154–5, 193–6, 199–201, 217, 222
  • Hellespont: 8–9, 59, 102, 235
  • Hepburn, Clara: 239
  • Hepburn, Katharine: 26, 93, 94, 109, 125, 169, 207; see Hepburn, Clara
  • Hermione: 58, 60–1, 103, 136
  • Hermitage, The: 17, 70, 83, 183
  • Herodotus: 29, 43, 152, 187, 189, 192
  • Hindu antiquities: 189
  • Hisarlik: 64, 97, 126, 155, 239
  • Hodgson, Ralph: 58, 147, 208
  • Holland: 105, 120
  • Homer: 13, 103–4, 125–6, 194–6, 206, 215; Homeric 57
  • Housman, A.E.: 191, 235
  • Icarus: 49, 183
  • Ictinus: 43
  • Iliad, The: 13, 49, 98, 126, 137, 155, 194–6, 200, 233
  • Ionian Sea: 22
  • Iphigenia: 86, 235
  • Ireland: 174
  • Istanbul: 70
  • Italy: 32–3, 106, 112, 188; ethnicity 36, 173; language 13
  • Ithaca: 22, 57, 101, 148, 200–1, 204; New York 65
  • Japanese (language): 91, 127
  • Jeep: 30, 39, 113, 224
  • Jesus: 120
  • Jewish (language): 142; see also Judaism
  • Joyce, James: 235
  • Juárez, Benito: 17, 178
  • Judaism: 70, 117, 148; see Jewish (language)
  • Karenina, Anna: 17, 56, 83, 217–8
  • Kate (narrator): 33, as Helen 228
  • Keats, John: 13; as Giovanni Keats 13, 30, 235; as Johannes Keats 172
  • Keeper: 154, 186
  • ketch: 18–9, 43, 75, 197
  • Kierkegaard: 72, 95, 96, 99, 171, 217
  • Klytaemnestra: 179
  • La Mancha: 32, 39, 158
  • Lake Como: 30, 175
  • Lancaster, PA: 109–10
  • Land Rover: 52, 104, 160
  • Last Supper, The: 68–70, 83, 117, 148, 185
  • Latin (language): 142
  • Lawrence of Arabia: 23, 93, 175–80, 229; Lawrence of Arabia (film) 176–8
  • Leeuwenhoek: 186, 206
  • Leningrad: 56, 70, 192
  • Lesbos: 19, 57, 175, 197
  • Lévi-Strauss, Claude: as Jacques Lévi-Strauss 211, 218, 228
  • Life of Brahms, A: see Brahms
  • Life of Brahms, The: see Brahams
  • Lincoln, Abraham: 191
  • Lippi, Fra Filippo: 193, 218
  • Liszt: 173–4
  • Littiz, Pennsylvania: 28, 65, 109–10, 238
  • loft in SoHo (Kate’s): 143, 149, 213, 223, 228
  • Loire, the: 21, 77
  • London: 7, 11, 20, 22, 24–5, 73, 74, 97, 110, 127, 205
  • loneliness: 231–2, 240
  • Long Island Sound: 48, 109, 219
  • looking: 84, 134, 188, 192–3, 224, 230
  • Lorrain, Claude: 136, 147
  • Lou Gehrig’s Disease: 167, 190; see also Gehrig, Stan
  • Louvre: 7, 9, 10, 14, 81, 155
  • Lucia di Lammermoor: 110, 115, 175
  • Lucien: lover 83–4, 87, 143; son 222–227
  • Ludwig (lover): 227
  • madness: 81, 121, 130, 138, 154, 189, 192, 198, 224, 230–2, 234
  • Madness of Ulysses, The: 82
  • Madrid: 12, 18, 120, 132
  • Magdalena: 234
  • Magritte: 212, 220, 227, 239
  • Magritte Road: 212–3
  • Maiden Lane: 73, 131
  • Mantegna, Andrea: 105, 111–2
  • Massachusetts: 193
  • Medea: person 60, 101, 104, 109, 154, 217, 235; Medea (play) 26, 104–5, 108, 110
  • Medici, the: 86, 185
  • Mediterranean Sea, the: 64, 106–7, 160
  • Memling, Hans, 138
  • Menelaus: 60, 82, 123, 199–200, 202
  • menstruation: 10, 48–50, 88, 90, 96, 101, 123, 155, 183–4, 221
  • messages (Kate’s): 7, 10, 57–8, 185, 193
  • Metropolitan Museum: 7, 10–11, 25, 35, 45, 49, 50–2, 115–6, 120, 130
  • Mexico: 9, 14, 16–8, 21, 24, 30, 165, 178, 223–4; Mexican (ethnicity) 165; Mexican restaurant 74, 75
  • Michelangelo: 83, 86, 128–9, 130, 134, 143, 148, 185–6, 192, 240
  • Milan: 68–9, 83
  • Millais, John Everett: 101
  • mirror: 9, 67, 69, 155, 185, 188, 226; Kate’s mother’s 33, 35–6, 39, 84, 119, 226, 228; rearview mirror 14, 83, 224
  • Mississippi: 27
  • Mississippi, the: 21, 27, 77, 224
  • mistress: 101, 103, 220
  • Mlle. Églantine: 61, 92
  • Modigliani: 67, 103, 108, 231–2
  • Mona Lisa, The: 82; see Giaconda, La
  • Monet: 130
  • Moscow: 17, 70
  • mother (Kate’s): 49, 67–9, 84, 119, 226, 228
  • Mount Ida: 8, 75, 154–5
  • Mozart: 191, 219
  • Murray, Gilbert: 102, 104, 164, 177, 208
  • Musial, Stan: as Sam Usual 119; as Stan Usual 190, 207
  • Naples: 87
  • National Gallery: 7, 11, 21–2, 120, 143, 148
  • National Parks: 73
  • National Portrait Gallery: 20, 22–3, 97
  • Nero: 28, 59
  • Nevelson, Louise: 35, 211
  • New Jersey: 34
  • New York: 7, 18–9, 29, 65, 193, 223–4
  • Nietzsche, Frederick: 53, 88, 105, 121, 172, 217, 232
  • Night Watch, The:  12, 205
  • Nome: 16
  • Norma: 104
  • November (month): 233
  • Oaxaca: 223–4
  • Odysseus: 21, 23, 82–3, 94, 98, 101, 117, 154, 190, 194, 200, 204, 228
  • Odyssey, The: 23–4, 49, 102–4, 118, 154, 178, 194, 200–1, 205, 207, 215; written by a woman 103, 118, 200–1
  • O’Keeffe, Georgia: 72, 211
  • Orestes: 47, 188, 197–9, 202
  • Origin of Table Manners, The: 96, 218–9; see also Lévi-Strauss, Claude
  • O’Toole, Peter: 94, 176, 207
  • pain in left shoulder: 159–61, 164, 183, 220–1
  • painting of beach house: 34, 37–8, 40–2, 45–6, 52–5, 63, 65–6, 92, 150–1, 237–9
  • painting of Penelope: 148
  • Pamplona: 12, 132, 175
  • Papas, Irene: 25–6, 93, 98, 208
  • paradox: 146, 151
  • Paris (city): 7, 42, 61, 81, 108, 234
  • Paris (person): 8, 44, 60, 97, 123, 154–5, 199
  • Paris dancers?: 98
  • Parthenon: 9, 42–3, 47, 49, 109
  • Pascal: 53, 85, 88, 105, 112, 171, 186, 196
  • Passover: 69–70
  • Pasteur, Louis: 186, 192, 226
  • Patroclus: 83, 87, 95, 235
  • Penelope: 21–2, 31, 43, 101, 148, 200–4
  • Pennsylvania: 28, 65, 80, 109, 110, 238
  • Pensées, The: 31, 53, 112
  • Persepolis: 137
  • Perugia: 64, 110, 134
  • Perugino: 145
  • Phidias: 39, 42–3, 187
  • Piazza Nuevo, the: 35, 188
  • Picasso, Pablo: 15, 72, 111–2, 130, 207
  • pickup truck: 128, 206, 233
  • Pilate, Pontius: 29,
  • Pintoricchio: 22–3, 31, 134, 203,
  • Plato: 97–8, 137
  • Po, the: 21, 77
  • Pollock, Jackson: 15, 131, 150, 208
  • Pont Neuf, the: 81, 155
  • pope: 86, 159, 192
  • Pope Urban VIII: 159
  • potbellied stove: 14, 212, 240
  • Potomac, the: 192
  • Prado: 12, 18, 87, 120
  • prostitution: 61, 111, 121, 123,
  • pupil: 61, 134, 136–41, 144–5, 147–8, 152, 189, 204, 206,
  • Queen of England, The: 20, 207
  • Quintus from Smyrna: 155
  • rain: 182–5, 189, 221, 222, 227
  • Rape of Helen, The: 60, 82
  • Raphael: 139, 145, 152
  • Raskolnikov, Rodion Romanovitch: 17, 84, 179, 229
  • Rauschenberg, Robert: 56, 58–9, 79, 101, 135, 228
  • Recognitions, The: 27, 93, 143, 196
  • Rembrandt: 12, 58–60, 62, 134–6, 139–42, 147–50, 152, 157, 203–6, 216–7
  • Rembrandt’s pupils: 58–60, 134, 136, 139–141, 150, 204
  • Renaissance, the: 35–6, 131, 234
  • Renoir: 24, 131
  • Rijksmuseum: 12, 91, 219
  • Rilke, Rainer Maria: 174–5, 196, 229
  • Rimini: 64, 110
  • Rio Grande, the: 21
  • Robinson, Jackie: 119, 121
  • Roman antiquity: 51
  • Romano, Giulio: 139, 145, 152
  • Romans, the: 28, 82, 144
  • Rome, Italy: 12, 28–9, 35–6, 64, 67, 108, 187, 234
  • Rome, New York: 223
  • roses: 152, 154, 175, 182
  • rosy-fingered dawn: 13, 128, 221
  • Roublev, Andrei: 95, 189
  • rowboat: 43, 70–1, 80, 122, 222
  • rowing: 42, 61, 70–1, 100, 111, 122
  • Rubens: 102, 139, 152
  • Ruskin, John: 100–1, 187, 211, 235
  • Ruskin, Mrs.: 101, 187
  • Russell, Bertrand: 61, 99, 127, 137, 147, 170, 195, 208
  • russet: 133–5, 147–9, 203, 206, 217
  • Russia: 9, 16, 19, 56, 81, 83, 108, 219
  • Russian: cinema 95; ethnicity, 189, 219; language 17, 156, 172
  • Ruth, Babe: 119
  • salad: 121, 192
  • Sappho: 60, 62, 86, 96–8, 101, 126, 231, 235
  • Savona, Italy: 32–3, 37, 69, 106–10, 116, 122, 132, 148, 160, 238
  • Savona, New York: 193
  • Scamander, the: 21, 98, 151
  • Scamandrius: 97
  • Scamandros: 97
  • Schapiro, Meyer: 211
  • Schubert: 191–2, 234
  • Schumann, Clara: 125, 174, 191, 218
  • Schumann, Robert: 214, 218, 234
  • Scyros, Island of: 19, 43, 102, 127, 147
  • seagull: 29, 30, 38, 48, 79, 84–5, 109, 118, 132, 174–5, 193, 217–8, 230, 238
  • Seasons, The: 64, 116–7
  • Seine, the: 14
  • Shakespeare, William: 21, 38, 45, 101–2, 126–7, 185
  • Shaw, T.E.: 24, 62, 93, 104, 177–8, 208
  • Shostakovich: A Biography: 98
  • Shostakovitch, Dmitri: 17, 87, 98, 175, 192–3, 208
  • Shostakovitch’s 5th Symphony: 87
  • Siberia: 70
  • Sien: 123, 125, 130–1
  • Silkwood, Karen: 192, 325
  • Simon: as Kate’s child 9, 14, 16–7, 24, 37, 68–9, 113, 134; as Kate’s husband 52; as Kate’s lover 227
  • Siqueiros, David Alfara: 17, 74, 188
  • Sirens, the: 83, 190
  • Sister Joan Inez of the Cross: see de la Cruz, Sor Juana Inez
  • Sistine Chapel: 86, 134
  • skirt sculptures: 85, 240
  • snapshot of Kate’s son, framed: see framed snapshot of Kate’s son
  • snow: 104, 129, 155, 233, 235
  • Socrates: 98, 112, 137
  • SoHo: 11, 18, 38, 56, 80, 133, 135, 167, 216, 223
  • Song of Love: 125, 174, 218
  • Sontag, Susan: 211, 214, 216
  • Sophocles: 16, 197
  • Spain: 12, 32, 43, 134
  • Spanish: ethnicity 39, 82; language 158, 164–5, 173, 223–4
  • Spanish Steps: 12, 28, 30, 113, 231
  • Sparta: 48, 82, 109, 152, 194, 199, 201
  • Spinoza: 139, 142, 157, 191, 204–6, 232, 235
  • spring (season): 155, 240
  • spring (stream): 13, 20, 69–70, 76, 84, 88, 155, 161, 184, 219, 238, 240
  • St. John of the Cross: 157–8, 166, 218
  • St. Petersburg: 56, 108–9, 112, 125, 192
  • St. Theresa: 157–8, 217
  • Stalingrad: 56
  • Starry Night, The: 129, 153
  • Steen, Jan: 117, 123, 138, 218
  • Stein, Gertrude: 113, 208
  • Stengel, Charles “Casey”: conflated with Roy “Campy” Campanella 212; see also Campanella, Roy “Campy”
  • stick: 57, 58, 60, 62, 92, 146, 184–5, 193, 231
  • Stratford-on-Avon: 11, 126–7
  • Strauss, Richard: 47, 51, 114, 121, 173, 218
  • Stravinsky, Igor: 51, 115, 207
  • Stuart, Gilbert: 148
  • Stupidity Street: 44
  • sunset: 81, 83, 87, 90, 184, 187, 239
  • Syracuse: New York 83; Italy 146
  • Syria: 29, 229
  • Tate Gallery: 11–3, 110, 205
  • Tchaikovsky: 100, 115, 169, 234–5
  • Tchaikovsky’s 6th Symphony: 100
  • Telemachus: 23, 82–3, 98, 201
  • Temple of Dendur: 51
  • tennis: 113–4, 119, 123; tennis balls 12, 28, 113–4, 117, 121, 230
  • Terry (lover, husband?): 49, 227
  • Thames, the: 13, 110
  • Theophanes the Greek: 39, 95, 189, 217
  • Theotocopoulos, Domenikos: see El Greco
  • Thomas, Dylan: 20–1, 72, 208
  • Thursday: 230, 236
  • Thus Spake Zarathustra: 173
  • Tiepolo: 60, 82–3, 86, 94
  • Tintoretto: 86, 137, 152
  • Titian: 61, 131, 137, 152
  • Toledo: Ohio 83; Spain 39, 157–8, 217
  • Torrigiano: 143
  • Toulouse-Lautrec: 62, 92
  • Troilus: 96
  • Trojan Horse: 70
  • Trojan War: 8, 194–9
  • Trojan Women, The: play 26, 39, 164, 180, 194; film 93; as Les Troyens 15, 64, 117, 145, 152
  • Trojans, the: 70, 96, 200
  • Troy: of antiquity 7–8, 16, 18–9, 22, 44, 81, 93, 98, 101, 103, 126–7, 151–2, 194, 195, 197–200, 239; New York 29, 70
  • Troyens, Les: see Trojan Women, The
  • Tsvetayeva, Marina: 72–3, 162, 219, 235
  • Tuesday: 222, 227
  • Turkey: 7
  • Turner, Joseph Mallord William: 11–2, 31, 110, 111, 130, 131, 187, 189
  • typing: 31, 53, 56, 63, 69, 71, 72, 78, 96, 102, 121, 123, 144, 182, 238, 240; typewriter 46, 192, 220–1, 237, 240
  • Uccello, Paolo: 139
  • Uffizi, the: 14, 153, 193, 220
  • Unfinished Symphony, The: 191
  • United States, the: 214
  • Urban VIII, Pope: see Pope Urban VIII
  • US Civil War, the: 191
  • Usual, Sam or Stan: see Musial, Stan
  • Utrillo, Maurice: 130–1, 152, 160, 208
  • Valadon, Suzanne: 131, 238
  • van der Goes, Hugo: 87, 105
  • van der Weyden, Rogier: 12, 87, 116–7, 120, 123, 137–8, 233
  • Van Dyck: 94, 139, 152
  • van Gogh, Vincent: 53, 87, 111, 119, 121–3, 125, 129, 130–1, 138, 145, 150, 153–4, 171, 219–20, 235, 239
  • Velásquez: 18, 39
  • Venice: 64, 69, 105
  • Vermeer, Jan: 116–7, 120, 123–4, 138, 140–1, 143, 147, 149, 186, 206
  • Vermeer’s wife: 141
  • Verrocchio: 59
  • Via Vittorio Veneto: 35, 72, 108
  • Vienna: 125, 170, 191
  • Villa-Lobos: 213
  • Vincent (lover): 227
  • Vivaldi, Antonio: 15, 64, 116–7, 233–4
  • Volga River, the: 70
  • Volkswagen: 12, 48, 64, 105–7, 110
  • Washington, George: 147–8, 195
  • watch: gold pocket watch 27; wristwatch 26, 28, 81, 188, 231
  • watchfires: 126, 239
  • Way of All Flesh, The: 102–3, 118, 165
  • Way of All Meat, The: 165, 180
  • Wednesday: 230, 236
  • Whitehead, Alfred North: 61, 111, 130, 170, 220
  • Whitman, Walt: 191, 194
  • window(s): 87, 92, 97, 134, 152, 182–3, 198–9, 225, 237, 239
  • winter: 129, 202, 224, 233, 236, 240
  • Wittgenstein, Ludwig: 61, 99–100, 102, 137, 170–171, 174–5, 190–1, 193, 217–8, 220, 239
  • World War I: 8, 59, 102
  • World War II: 112
  • Wuthering Heights: 53, 63, 95, 97, 134
  • Yugoslavia: 8
  • Zapata (film): 178
  • Zapata Emiliano: 17, 21, 94
  • Zeno: 146, 149, 159, 174
  • Zurbarán: 39, 132

Quotes

  • “Andrea senza errori”: 218
  • “bricolage”: 78, 170
  • “Dasein”: 168, 170, 180
  • “Generally, even then, I was lonely”: 31, 240
  • “Once I had a dream of fame”: 31, 240
  • “singing birds sweet”: 44, 58, 235
  • “Somebody is living in the Louvre”: 7
  • “Somebody is living in the Metropolitan Museum”: 7
  • “Somebody is living on this beach”: 240
  • “The world is everything that is the case”: 78–9
  • “To the castle, a sign must have said”: 39, 95, 240

Update 1: I restored the underlined text! Also, I suppose my memorial for David Markson is somewhat relevant. “There’s David Markson for you: He didn’t know who Bonnie Raitt was.”

Update 2: Here’s a link to Dalkey’s page for WM (at least, until they change their site again, and it breaks). And here it is at Google Books; I bet they’re busy data-mining it for Markson’s former bank account info…

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28 Comments

  1. ryan chang

      AWESOME

  2. Alex Alvärëz

      Thanks a lot. What’s the other greatest novel of the past 25 years?

  3. ravi mangla

      What’s the other great novel of the past 25 years?

  4. ravi mangla

      Beat me to the question.

  5. A D Jameson

      You’ll have to wait for my post on that! :)

  6. Michael Nardone

      I love this.

  7. A D Jameson

       Thanks!

  8. A D Jameson
  9. Stephen Tully Dierks

      i like this book a lot too. 

  10. A D Jameson

      Putting this up has reminded me that I haven’t read it in far too long. So I guess I’ll reread it this summer. LMK if you want to meet up at New Wave to discuss it…

  11. Stephen Tully Dierks

      sounds good, Adam. i’d like to reread it. i could also share with you a story thing i did a couple years ago that uses Markson’s style to some extent.

  12. Don

      Awesome – thank you for this.

      The Maupassant moments were my favorite parts of WM. Now I can go right to them.

  13. Don

      Also, I encourage Markson lovers to read his westerns. They’re hilarious!

  14. A D Jameson

      Sure thing!

  15. A D Jameson

      Yes, everything by the man is worth reading! (A tiny piece of me dies whenever I meet someone who’s read WM but not Springer’s Progress.)

      Someday, God willing, we’ll get some kind of a letters collection… Markson was a prolific and fascinating correspondent…

  16. Don

      Yes, a letters collection would be excellent. Hopefully Dalkey Archive will do it.

  17. deadgod

      Markson used his typewriter to type both roman and italic print?

  18. A D Jameson

      He could do anything!

  19. GARBAGE

      WM is handsome as heck, but those last 4 books (Reader’s Block, This Is Not A Novel, Vanishing Point, Last Novel) are his best, imo.

  20. deadgod

      He is pretty good…

  21. Anonymous

      I am a huge fan of Markson and I think WM is his best. This index is insane. And awesome.  Insanely awesome.   

  22. A D Jameson

      Thanks!

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      You left out Henry Rhodes Hamilton it seems…

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