| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 01dc5b9 | Is T.S. Eliot the only poet one can think of who could have spent a year on his own in Paris at twenty-three--and managed to have no sexual encounter whatsoever? | David Markson | ||
| efc45e6 | Trying to imagine , who found indecorous, at a London performance of --to which in fact he was once taken. Trying to imagine the same for a time-transported --who during his first visit to Europe was even shocked by the profusion of naked statues. | lenny-bruce nathaniel-hawthorne puritanism norms | David Markson | |
| 1910216 | I also believe I met William Gaddis once. He did not look Italian. | David Markson |