By Donna Tartt 1992
Main characters:
Richard Papen
Julian Morrow
Dr. Roland
Henry Winter
Bunny. Edmund Corcoran
Francis Abernathy
Charles and Camilla Macaulay
Judy Poovey
Locations:
Hampden (fiction?)
Vermont
New York
Boston
Rome 125
Villa Guilia
Colosseum
The Palatine Hill
The Baths of Caracalla
Piazza di Spagna 187
Via Condotti 188
Towers of Iliion 200
References:
Friedrich Nietzshe. Unzetgemässe Betrachtugen
Plato. Republic, Book II
Tom Swift - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Swift
The Woderful World of Disney - https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/The_Wonderful_World_of_Disney
Milton
Muzak (trademark)
Pythagoras
Ezra Pound
T.S. Eliot
Anacreon
Racine
W.C. Fields
Plato
Picasso 29
Dante 32
Virgil 32
“Goodbye, Columbus” 32
Platonic microcosm 32
The New Testament 35
Koine
Homer
Plotinus “The Eclogues”
Plato’s four divine madnesses. 36
Erinyes 37
old Cephalus once heard Sophocles say… 37
Xenophon and Thucydides 37
Apollo
Athena Nike
Homer 38
Aechylus 38
Glorious speech of Klytemnestra’s in the Agamemnon… 38
Inferno 39
“Aristotle says in the Poetics, that objects such as corpses, painful to view in themselves, can become delightful to contemplate in a work of art” 39
Dionysian 39
Bacchae 40
Tiberius41
Euripides speaks of the Maenads
the terrible seduction of Dionysiac ritual. 42
van Gogh 42
Books in Pali 48
As You Like It. Shakespeare 49
Berliz - language school 52
The Show-Me State - Missouri 53
the Manhattan Projects
Teddy Roosevelt
Sylvia Plath 56
Benjamin Jowett to Periclean Athens 57
Teddy Roosevelt about to lead the Rough Riders up San Juan Hill
The Parmenides 62
L’Allegro and Il Penseroso 62
Mohawks 63
Hesiod’s primordial Chaos was simply space in chaos in the modern sence of the word. 69
Josephine Baker 69
Parmenides 69
kouroi 71
The Great Gatsby 72
Gaultier corselet 72
Dantesque 73
Jackson Pollock 75
Ivanhoe - Walter Scott 1819. historical novel 78
Marie Corelli
Rover Boys
The Club of London
The Pirates of Penzance
Bobbsey Twins
Byron’s Marino Faliero
Auld Lang Syne
Hail Marys 79
tholos, Doric by way of Pompei. and Stanford White 81
D.W. Griggith and Cecil B. De Mille
Catuvellauni 81
Elizabeth and Leicester 81
Tilbury Fort
Leicester and the Earl of Essex
The Waste-Land 81
The Paradise Lost 83
Shakespeare 83
Emma Bovary 86
The Bride of Fu Manchu 90
The Farmer in the Dell 92 singing game
Man Friday - Robinson Crusoe 92
Mémoires of the Duc de Saint-Simon 93
Alexander Pope 94
Saint John the Baptist 96
the Twelve Great Cultures 101
Dorothy Sayers’s translation of Inferno 105
John Donne 107
Men of Thought and Deed, a six-volume work by E. Tipton Chatsford 107
Izaak Walton 107
Rupert Brooke and a box of Junior Mints 109
Yankee magazine or Reader’s Digest 118
Invisible Man in H.G. Wells 118
Brian Eno “in New Delhi/And Hong Kong/They all lnow that it won’t be long…” 118
Hegel 125
old magazine Life 127
Sitwells
T.S. Eliot 127
ode of Pindar’s 136
Raymond Chandler 138
Laurel and Hardy 139
Liddell and Scott - Greek Lexicon 142
Bobe Hope’s autobiography
Fu Manchu novels
Men of Thought and Deed 155
Xenophon 155
Plato calls telestic madness? Bakcheia? Dionysiac frenzy? 163
Pythia, the pneuma enthusiastikon 165
Devine Comedy 165
Dante
The Thirty-Nine Steps 178
The Grateful Dead 197
Voltaire 197
Tōjō - Japanese general 198
Queen of Spades 199
Callimachus 199
Patroklos 200
Homer 200
Ahab and Falstaff and Mrs. Gamp 200
Callimachean epigrams 201
Howard Hughes 222
Purgatorio 235
how Claudios died? Agrippina had slipped a poisoned one into his dish one night 240
Sir Walter Scott - 249
E.R. Doods 273
Orpheum 279
Dostoyevsky 310
Tolstoy 341
Schliemann’s Ilios 369
Knute Rockne, All-American 413
A.e. Housman
“With Rue My Heart Is Laden” 413
Lycidas or Upanishads 414
Marcel Proust 423
George Sand 423
George Orwell 51
Richmond Lattimore 520
John Ford. The Broken Heart 541
Webster and Middleton, Tourneur and Ford 547
Christopher Marlowe
Doctor Faustus 547
Iliad 558
Quotes:
13
“Trees creaking with apples, fallen apples red on the grass beneath the heavy sweet smell of apples rotting on the ground and the steady thrumming of wasps around them”
36
“All right”, said Julian, looking around the table. “I hope we’re ready to leave the phenomenal world, and enter into the sublime?”
40
“But the idea of losing control is one that fascinates controlled people such as ourselves more than almost anything. All truly civilised people - the ancients no less than us - have civilised themselves through the willful repression of the old, animal self”
41
“The Roman genius, and perhaps the Roman flaw, was an obsession with the order.”
42 “Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it”
208
Homer says about the Arcadians, you remember?
With ships they had nothing to do…
“In Parrhasia it was that Rheia bore thee,” he said dreamily, papsing into Greek, “where was a hill sheltered with the thickest brush”
210
Plato’s definition of Justice in the Republic?
Justice, in a society, is when each level of a hierarchy works within its place and is content with it. A poor man who wishes to rise above his station is only making himself needlessly miserable. And the wise poor have always known this, the same as do the wise rich.”
223
amor vincit omnia - любовь побеждает всё
511
There is nothing wrong with the love of beauty. But Beuty - unless she is wed to something more meaningful - is always superficial.