Journey To The End Of The Night
Celine
Frontispiece
Reader has translated the French “notre vie est un passage dans l’hiver et dans la nuit nous cherchons notre passage dans le ciel oú rien ne luit.” into “Our life is a journey, Through the winter of the night, We are looking for our path, In the sky where nothing glows.”
Canterbury Tales
Canterbury Tales
6
Reader has made numerous notations in the margins in graphite including: “nimble” next to “wonderly deliver” and “done well” next to, “and born him wel”.
The Courage To Be
Paul Tillich
29
Reader has underlined “I am that which must never surpass itslef”, and they have written “self negation for greatest possible affirmation next to the underlined text “he continues, and shows in these words that for him self- affirmation includes self-negation, not for the sake of negation but for the sake of the greatest possible affirmation, for what he calls “power”. They have also written “Me” next to underlined text stating ” This obedience which is included in commanding is the opposite of submissiveness. The latter is the cowardice which does not dare to risk itself. The submissive self is the opposite of the self-affirming self, even if it is submissive to a God. It wants to escape the pain of hurting and being hurt.”
Notes Of A Native Sun
James Baldwin
85
Reader has written in black ink “ironic twist” with a line going to “Notes of a Native Son”, and has written “Richard Wright Negro Novelist”, “Organization”and”emphasizing time” in the margin.
Psychoanalysis And Feminisms
Juliet Mitchell
60
Reader has written in black ink “penis envy occurs because women want to be able to have sex with their mothers”, and :attachment to breast is rational”.
Annals
Tacitus
39
Reader has written in pencil and blue ink extensively including: “Tib. guilt from Livia” and Guilt by association” next to underlined text “Livia was a real catastrophe, to the nation, as a mother and to the house of the Caesars as a stepmother”.
The Bride and the Bachelors
Calvin Thomkins
9
Reader has written in pencil “Art w/o an audience is incomplete” next to a passage highlighted in yellow that says “The artist, Duchamp said, is a “mediumistic being” who does not really know what he is doing or why he is doing it. It is the spectator who, through a kind of “inner osmosis,” deciphers and interprets the work’s inner qualifications, relates them to the external world, and thus completes the creative cycle.
The Bear
William Faulkner
316
Reader has written in green ink “what does this mean” next to “Get out of here! Don’t touch them! Don’t touch a one of them! They’re mine!”. And written in black ink at the bottom of the page “Man has completely lost contact with nature. The realization of this draws Boon into a state of frenzy”.
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov
41
Reader has underlined “a child, mind you, a mere child!” and “the loveliest nymphet green-red-blue Priap himself could think up”and “prismatic layers of light”. Beneath the underlined “beggar’s bliss” reader has written orgasm.
Daily Handbook
John Frederick Starck
82
Reader has doodled with black ink in the margin and roughly underlined “render to the Lord”.