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499 “as if a drink that was merely single”: OJ, 119.
499 “conspicuous ego clash”: LJC, 308.
499 “Updike never calls me”: Schwartz to SD, March 26, 1986, Swem.
500 “heavily grated corner emporium”: OJ, 118.
500 Valhouli … found them “incoherent”: SD int. Valhouli, Oct. 15, 1984, Swem.
500 “Vesuvian maternalism”: LJC, 308.
501 “She's going to marry a chap”: El Borracho [Ivan Gold], “Message in a Bottle,” Boston magazine, Jan. 1985, 82.
501 “I'd had trouble dissuading him”: LJC, 307.
502 “Communications Time–peddler, 1970”: FLC Jr.'s alumnus file, Dartmouth.
502 “Dear Mr. Nixon (sic)”: FLC Jr. to Richard M. Nixon, June 18, 1970, PJC.
502 “no weltgeist, no historical perspective”: FLC Jr. to John D. Ehrlichman, Nov. 11, 1972, PJC.
502 “a college drop-out way back in 1926”: FLC Jr. to Perry Knowlton, July 20, 1970, Columbia.
502 “potentially an excellent manuscript”: Gerald McCauley, Curtis Brown reader, report on Who Are the Revolutionaries?, Columbia.
503 “Honolulu is on my itinerary”: FLC Jr. to David Cheever, July 15, 1970.
503 “Perhaps I've delineated in non-fiction”: FLC Jr. to Knowlton, July 21, 1970, Columbia.
503 “I would hope that it would make McLuhan”: FLC Jr. to JC, Aug. 30, 1970, PJC.
503 “or whatever part of that”: FLC Jr. to JC, Sept. 14, 1970, PJC.
503 “covered the same ground”: FLC Jr. to Knowlton, Oct. 16, 1970, Columbia.
503 “Perhaps … ‘it should be published’ “: Knowlton to FLC Jr., April 30, 1971, Columbia.
503 “there is a kind of destiny”: FLC Jr. to Sarah Cheever, Feb. 22, 1972, PJC.
503 “Poor Fred began to drink again”: JC to Coates, May 23 [1974].
504 “funny and very relevant”: FLC Jr. to David Cheever, Oct. 19, 1974.
505 Sexton, whom Cheever found “aggressive”: LJC, 308.
505 “visceral distaste”: author int. Ivan Gold, Sept. 21, 2004.
505 “Did they overhear that?”: Diane Wood Middlebrook, Anne Sexton: A Biography (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991), 394.
505 Cheever “never quite got over this”: LJC, 310.
505 she'd “never been so happy”: JC to Coates, Oct. 14 [1974].
505 “Susie said … rather bad show”: JC to Coates, Dec. 2 [1974].
505 “extraordinarily bleak” room at Phelps: CJC, 65.
506 “you have a father who is dying”: LJC, 294.
CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT {1975}
507 “straight asshole”: LJC, 308–9.
507 “opportunity to ask John Updike“: author int. David Frieze, March 20, 2005.
508 “I've written more goddamn words”: Dean Doner to SD, Oct. 22, 1984, Swem.
509 “I can't think of anything more selfish”: JC to Coates, Feb. 10 [1975].
509 “delinquent asshole”: JC to Donadio [c. March 1975], Swem.
510 “I'm faring rather poorly”: El Borracho [Ivan Gold], “Message in a Bottle,” Boston magazine, Jan. 1985, 82.
510 “in deep concern” about John: FLC Jr. to David Cheever, March 30, 1975.
510 “I must have been quite drunk and mad”: JJC, 301.
510–511 a degree of brain damage: Phelps admission summary, April 4, 1975, PRM.
511 “bunch of Christers”: LJC, 310.
511 memory was “apparently poor”: “Patient Progress Notes (4/9/75)” from Smithers, Swem.
511 “A bummer; not really bad, but not good”: JJC, 298–302.
511 “The indoctrination here is stern”: LJC, 312.
512 “They don't want me to work”: JC to FLC Jr., April 17, 1975, PJC.
513 “almost surreptitiously”: SD int. Ruth Maxwell, Sept. 17, 1984, Swem.
513 “I'm really allright but I can't say so”: GT, 243.
513 “Oh, but of course you're right”: author int. Carol Kitman, Aug. 16, 2004.
513 “But he was a brilliant poet”: JC, to anon., unmailed draft [summer 1975?], Houghton.
513 “Non posso, cara”: HBD, 194.
514 “Fifteen patients have fled”: JC to Spear, April 21 [1975], courtesy of Pamela Spear Goff.
514 “Alcoholism seems to be an infirmity”: JC to Clare Thaw, May 11 [1977].
514 “He says that if he were strong enough”: LJC, 313.
515 “She seems to operate”: progress notes, 5/5/75, Swem.
515 a postcard … “See?”: author int. Oakley Hall III, June 23, 2005.
CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE {1975}
516 “To go from continuous drunkenness”: JJC, 303.
516 “a man of 34 who has been”: CJC,