| religious observances | letters of John Keats | ||
| The Bell Jar | stuff in Britain | ||
| Lolita | George Emerson | ||
| cicada noises | Tomasita’s, Santa Fe, NM | ||
| "Zefiro torna" | the seaside | ||
| Disco dancing | sushi | ||
| "Dangerous Liaisons" | B-Boy Bouillabaisse | ||
| cypress trees | Mr. & Mrs. Spikky Sparrow | ||
| sangria in the afternoon on the patio | cocoa & animals | ||
| "How to Get Ahead in Advertising" | Pearl Fishers duet | ||
| lavendar or lilac or heather nail varnish | bicycling | ||
| enough magazines for the whole plane trip | mice | ||
| Jacopo the white butterfly | righteous babes | ||
| London Fields | Celtic beasts | ||
| the merengue | Tristram Shandy | ||
| Batherapy | small dresses | ||
| chocolate almond croissants | sleep & procrastination | ||
| meze | personal mail | ||
| shrimp har gow | smell of sun on flagstones | ||
| "Whip It" | Benny Goodman | ||
| first year university | "Fogarty’s Cove" | ||
| tenting | the opera | ||
| exhaustion | The Dinner Party | ||
| Hieronymos Bosch | Jack Donne | ||
| The Quantity Theory of Insanity | garlic | ||
| Rodin museum | silver | ||
| Fort S. Andre | my glowing pumpkin | ||
| Sam Shepard | boys in beads | ||
| long distance calls | Vernaccia di San Gimignano | ||
| shopping | Donald Barthelme | ||
| cappuccino | little bunnies | ||
| "Mirror in the Bathroom" | the French word "amphitryon" | ||
| Jughead | haggis | ||
| our gazogene | myth of Semele | ||
| story of Epaminandas | biting | ||
| Tim Roth | roses | ||
| Robert Carlyle | pretending to be rich in NYC | ||
| Gertrude Stein & Alice B. Toklas | Yixing teapot | ||
| Fiesole | Beethoven piano sonatas | ||
| Fred Astaire | Ella Fitzgerald | ||
| "It’s a Gift" | "Annie Hall" | ||
| gold leaf | mud masques | ||
| "The New Yorker" | Marilyn Monroe | ||
| nasturtiums | arm-wrestling | ||
| grapes | Russian meat pies | ||
| the Rouen cathedrals | "I’m working on a novel" |