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477 The “tangible world” was receding: Sarah Irwin to SD, July 18, 1984, Swem.
478 “I shout myself hoarse at football games”: LJC, 297.
478 “Fellatio is the nicest thing”: author int. Sarah Irwin, Oct. 11, 2004.
479 “One way I can find out if I like something”: CJC, 42.
480 “exercising marital rights”: SD int. Leggett, April 28, 1985, Swem.
481 “We part the student and the teacher”: JJC, 293.
481 “His third marriage, her first”: E-mail from Gurganus to author, June 5, 2004.
481 “[Allan] flirts with me”: JJC, 293.
482 “a truck-driver or master-sergeant type”: author int. Leggett, May 23, 2004.
482 “[T]he clerk was just unlocking the front door”: Raymond Carver, Fires (Santa Barbara, Calif.: Capra Press, 1983), 199.
482 “I'd be very happy to tell the Guggenheims”: JC to Ray Carver, Aug. 2 [1977], courtesy of Carol Sklenicka.
482 “The woman was called Miss Dent”: Raymond Carver, “The Train,” in Cathedral (New York: Random House, 1989), 147–56.
483 “Do you know, Mr. Donleavy, that no major“: Ed Dinger, ed., Seems like Old Times (Iowa City: Iowa Writers’ Workshop, 1986), 114–16.
483 “Julius Fuck Street”: LJC, 283.
483 “drab commie suit”: author int. Petru Popescu, Nov. 1, 2004.
483 “earthly paradise”: Spear to Litvinov, Nov. 28, 1973, courtesy of Pamela Spears Goff.
CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX {1974}
486 “she hurled at me the fact”: GT, 233.
487 “She's already married! To me!”: TT, 159.
488 “I love you … I write an advertisement”: JJC, 294, 296.
488 “never taken a story about a homosexual”: LJC, 302.
488 “That was one of the nicest things”: JC to WM [c. March 1974], Berg.
488 “kindest thing anybody's ever done”: Dwight Garner, “The Salon Interview: Allan Gurganus,” Salon (www.salon.com/books/int/1997/12/cov_si_08Gurganus).
488 “the modesty of [his] demands”: LJC, 303.
489 “appreciate the excellence of your character”: JC to Gurganus, March 21 [1974].
490 “a metaphor for something mysterious”: JC, “The Leaves, the Lion-Fish and the Bear,” Esquire, Nov. 1974, 110–11, 192–93, 195–96.
491 Esquire had offered “three thousand for anything”: JC to Gurganus, April 16 [1974].
491 homosexuality “understandable and valid”: SD int. MZ, July 25, 1984, Swem.
491 “[I]n my considered opinion”: JC to Stathis Orphanos, May 18, 1979, CFP.
491 it felt “like a gift”: author int. Dennis Coates, April 26, 2004.
492 “Your crack about my being unloved”: JC to Coates, June 10 [1974].
493 ex-husband … found it “kind of appalling”: SD int. Rob Cowley, June 20, 1984, Swem.
493 Warren Hinckle … a “wretched buffoon”: JC to Weaver [c. Sept. 1974], CFP; the remark is deleted from the letter published in GT, 237.
493 “People stop me on the street and ask”: JC to Cowley, Oct. 1 [1972], Newberry.
493 “He would look hangdog”: author int. Lehmann-Haupt and Robins, Aug. 15, 2004.
493 his son called him a “shit”: JC to Coates, April 6 [1974].
494 “Why don't you divorce him?”: author int. “Elaine Moody,” Aug. 10, 2004.
494 “[Elaine] is sulking in Maine”: JC to Coates, Aug. 13 [1974].
494 “On return home to a tense emotional atmosphere”: Phelps admission report, Aug. 20, 1974, PRM.
CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN {1974}
495 Kenmore Square (“part student, part slum”): LJC, 307.
495 “end up penniless and naked”: GT, 237.
495 “I start with the Lief Ericson [sic] monument”: JC to Dirkses, Sept. 11 [1974], Swem.
496 “He hasn't sent me a thing”: Laurens Schwartz, journal, Swem.
496 “the last pages in Proust”: author int. Rick Siggelkow, July 1, 2004.
496 found the administration “quite mysterious”: JC to Coates, Sept. 11 [1974].
496 “I did not rise to the occasion”: George Starbuck to SD, Oct. 28, 1983, Swem.
497 students “responsive and contentious”: JC to Coates, Oct. 4 [1974].
497 “It's a found object”: author int. Christopher Gresov, July 24, 2005.
497 “Submit it to a New York publisher”: author int. Oakley Hall III, June 23, 2005.
498 “had a tendency to walk out … nude”: author int. Schwartz, June 21, 2004.
499 “We were intimate but not close”: John Malcolm Brinnin to SD, May 9, 1984, Swem.
499 “Should