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376 “Environment plays, I hope”: JC to McLoone, April 11 [1966], Georgetown University Library.
376 “The old dog; my love”: JJC, 193–94.
377 “She was a wonderful companion”: LJC, 261.
377 “teach the Antigone to negroes”: JC to Litvinov, May 23 [1965].
378 “My father finally concurred”: NFB, 51.
379 “Ben, who is my favorite”: LJC, 249.
379 “I damn near swoon”: JC to Herbst [c. June 1965], Yale.
379 “The attachment seems to resist any analysis”: JJC, 210.
379 “We'd each have a fork”: LJC, 23.
380 “Christmas … not as pleasant”: JC to Litvinov, Jan. 7 [1966].
380 “I am teaching Fred”: JC to Litvinov, Nov. 2 [1965].
381 “The only one of the children”: TT, 137.
381 “both young and old, masterful and tearful”: LJC, 253.
382 “talismanic” cameo: JC to Stern, Aug. 17 [1966], Chicago.
382 “What I was supposed to do”: GT, 191–92.
382 “into very deep and stormy water”: JC to McLoone, Feb. 24 [1967], Georgetown University Library.
383 “Teamster's Union hose-type rainstorm”: CJC, 64.
383 “It is not a great picture but it is faithful”: JC to Litvinov, April 5 [1968].
383 “occasionally gross and mawkish”: Vincent Canby, “Cross-County ‘Swimmer,’ “ New York Times, May 16, 1968, 53.
383 akin to that of “a shampoo commercial”: Joseph Morgenstern, “Puddle Jumper,” Newsweek, May 27, 1968, 94.
383 “Spiegel really fucked it up”: JC to William Kennedy, Nov. 21 [1968], Albany.
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT {1966–1967}
384 “The mortal boredom of reading”: JC to Biddle [c. Nov. 1963], LC.
384 “Oh for heaven's sake, Helen”: author int. Helen Barolini, Feb. 27, 2005.
385 “[I] have written two stories”: JC to Litvinov [c. June 1966].
386 “written [him] off as an improvident”: JC to Bracher, Sept. 14, 1967, Bancroft.
386 “[T]he stuntiness of Barthelme disconcerts me”: LJC, 270.
386 “Shawn's chosen surrealist”: JC memo to grants committee [c. 1980], Academy.
387 Gaddis's JR (“less than rubbish”): JC to Laurens Schwartz, Sep. 12 [1977], Swem.
387 “That the complexities of contemporary life”: JC, “An Exchange on Fiction,” New York Review of Books, Feb. 3, 1977, 44.
387 “Jean said, drawing me aside”: CJC, 169.
387 “[Mailer] is so wonderfully tough”: JC to Litvinov, Sept. 25 [1968].
388 “John's new novel (Couples)”: JC to Litvinov, May 22 [1968].
388 “It will be miserable and dangerous”: JC to WM [c. June 1966], Berg.
389 “I would not make a potholder in the city”: LJC, 21.
389 “As for Ben he was reclassified 1-A”: JC to WM [c. Feb. 1968], Berg.
389 “For no explainable reason”: FLC Jr. to JC, Nov. 23, 1966, PJC.
389 “I'm enclosing a small check”: JC to FLC Jr., Dec. 1 [1966], PJC.
390 “After twenty-five years of acute alcoholism”: LJC, 269.
390 “I keep reading biographies of Fitzgerald”: JC to Kronenberger, Nov. 3 [1966?], Copley.
390 “Shall I dwell on the crucifixion”: JJC, 213.
391 “hands seem[ed] to drop off “: JC to Robert Gottlieb, Nov. 8 [1968], Swem.
391 “Walking on Madison Avenue”: JJC, 224.
392 “I can't bear to be gentled by an impotent man”: ibid., 223.
392 his wife's “needless darkness”: Dr. David C. Hays, notes, Swem.
392 “So I go to the shrink”: JJC, 213.
393 “We would embrace”: ibid., 214.
393 “[I]t was Esquire”: GT, 193.
393 “Does he know anything about music”: JJC, 216.
393 “[Hays's] mouth seems a little blubbery”: JC to MC [c. July 1966], Swem.
394 “Who profits by concluding that Mrs. Zagreb”: JJC, 218.
394 “Some years ago I went to a psychiatrist”: LJC, 261.
395 JC and Rorem at Yaddo, 1966: Ned Rorem, The Nantucket Diary (New York: North Point, 1987), 233–35.
395 “I've never felt this way before”: author int. Rorem, May 9, 2004.
397 “I am weary of being a boy of fifty”: JJC, 226.
397 “a little incestuous”: JC to Litvinov, Oct. 21 [1966].
397 “I seem to know so much”: JC to Cowley [c. Oct. 1966], Newberry.
397 “I resolved never to do this again”: JC to Rorem, July 7 [1967].
CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE {1967–1968}
399 “its annual journey towards the rocks”: JC to Litvinov, April 3 [1967].
401 “that if he didn't have a squad of policemen”: GT, 197.
401 letter to the bishop of New York: author