Oscars

Oxfam

Pale King, The (Wallace)

Paltrow, Gwyneth

Parker, Dorothy

Pat and Mike (film)

Paynesville School

Perec, Georges

Père Goriot (Balzac)

Perkins, Maxwell

Pervert’s Guide to Cinema (iek)

Pessoa, Fernando António Nogueia

Philadelphia Story, The (film)

“Philosophical Investigations” (Wittgenstein)

Phoenix, Joaquin

Picasso, Pablo

Pickering, Colonel (char.)

Plath, Sylvia

Plato

Pleasure of the Text, The (Barthes)

Pnin (Nabokov)

Pniniad (Diment)

Pope, Alexander

Portman, Natalie

poshlust

Pretty Woman (film)

Pride and Prejudice (Austen)

Princess Casamassima, The (James)

Proof (film)

Pygmalion (Shaw)

Pynchon, Thomas

Queen Christina (film)

Queen Victoria (Strachey)

Ramkissoon, Chuck

readers, reading:

as creative

ideal

pleasures of

Rear Window

“Reenactor” (char.)

Remainder (McCarthy)

self-ridiculing humor of

space in

“Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner, The” (Coleridge)

Robbe-Grillet, Alain

Romance & Cigarettes (film)

Room with a View, A (Forster)

Roth, Philip

Rush, Geoffrey

Sade, Marquis de

Saga of Gosta Berling, The (film)

Samsa, Gregor (char.)

Samways, Phil

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Saving Private Ryan (film)

Scaife, Bert

Scudder, Alex (char.)

See It Now (TV show)

“Self’s the Man” (Larkin)

Selznick, David O.

Sentimental Education, A (Flaubert)

Seraph on the Suwanee (Hurston)

Shakespeare, William

Shaw, George Bernard

Shopgirl (film)

Sierra Leone

“Signifying Nothing” (Wallace)

“Silly Novels by Lady Novelists” (Eliot)

Smith, Ben

comedy act of

Smith, Harvey

ashes of

background of

comedy enjoyed by

death of

fatalism and pessimism of

in World War II,

Smith, Luke

Smith, Perry

solipsism

Spielberg, Steven

Spinoza, Baruch

Starks, Joe (char.)

Stewart, Jimmy

Stiller, Mauritz

Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (film)

Strong Opinions (Nabokov)

Suddenly, Last Summer (film)

“Suicide as a Sort of Present” (Wallace)

Sunday Telegraph

Sylvia Scarlett (film)

Syriana (film)

S/Z (Barthes)

Szymborska, Wislawa

Tapestry (album)

Taylor, Charles

text:

codes in

indeterminacy of

readerly

writerly

Thalberg, Irving

Their Eyes Were Watching God (Hurston)

Theron, Charlize

“Think” (Wallace)

Thirlwell, Adam

Tolbert, William

Tolstoy, Leo

“Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus” (Wittgenstein)

Tracy, Spencer

Traffic (film)

Transamerica (film)

Treadwell, Timothy

Tremendous World I Have Inside My Head, The: Franz Kafka: A Biographical Essay (Begley)

Trial, The (Kafka)

“Triple Dream, The” (Lermontov)

“Tri-Stan: I Sold Sissee Nar to Ecko” (Wallace)

True Whig Party

Tsotsi (film)

Tubman, William

Turturro, John

Two-Faced Woman (film)

Two Ronnies

Unity Temple

Valentino, Rudolph

Valéry, Paul

Vallon, Annette

van den Broek, Hans (char.)

van den Broek, Rachel (char.)

Van Eyck, Hubert

vdokhnovenie (recapture)

V for Vendetta (film)

Vincy, Fred (char.)

Vincy, Rosamund (char.)

Virgil

Visconti, Luchino

Vitti, Monica

vorstog (initial rapture)

Vyas, Nazrul Ram (char.)

Wade, Aubrey

Walker, Alice

Walk the Line (film)

Wallace, David Foster

commencement speech of

difficulties of

insistence on awareness in work of

Larkin’s poetry and

linguistic specialization in work of

MacArthur won by

parables of

“self” in work of

Wasteland, The (Eliot)

Watanabe, Ken

“Water” (Larkin)

Waugh, Evelyn

Weil, Simone

Wells, H. G.

Werfel, Franz

West Point

“What I Believe” (broadcast)

Where Angels Fear to Tread (Forster)

White Teeth (Smith)

Wide Sargasso Sea (Rhys)

Wilcox, Henry (char.)

Wilkerson, Mr.

Willesden

Wilton, Penelope

Witherspoon, Reese

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Wodehouse, P. G.

Women and Children Development Association of Liberia (WOCDAL)

Women Love Diamonds (film)

Woods, Vergible “Tea Cake” (char.)

Woolf, Virginia

Wordsworth, William

World Is Not Enough, The (film)

World War II

World Wildlife Fund

Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston (Boyd)

Wright, Frank Lloyd

writers, writing:

inspiration of

pleasures of

Wyllie, David

Yates, Richard

Yeats, William Butler

Yeoh, Michelle

“Yet Another Example of the Porousness of Certain Borders (XI)” (Wallace)

“You’ve Got a Friend” (song)

Zaltzman, Andy

Zellweger, Renée

Zhang, Ziyi

Zikeh, Nyan P.

Zischler, Hanns

Ziek, Slavoj

Zora Neale Hurston: A Life Letters

Zurer, Ayelet

Zadie Smith