Geoff Dyer - Out of Sheer Rage - Wrestling With D.H. Lawrence

p. 97 ‘no life without. .’: from ‘Lullaby of Cape Cod’, Part of Speech , Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1980 p. 113.

p. 97 ‘I feel a. .’: Letters Vol. 4 p. 301.

p. 98 ‘One can no. .’: Letters Vol. 5 p. 266.

p. 98 ‘meant nothing to. .’: Rainer Maria Rilke, Selected Letters p. 30.

p. 98 ‘Whisper to the. .’: Selected Poetry p. 255.

p. 99 ‘happy as a. .’: Vincent Van Gogh, The Letters , selected and edited by Ronald De Leeuw, Allen Lane, 1996 p. 361.

p. 99 ‘convinced that every. .’: Letters Vol. 5 p. 436.

p. 99 ‘Perhaps there remains. .’: The Selected Poetry p. 151.

p. 100 ‘A fine wind. .’: Poems p. 29.

p. 101 ‘You mustn’t look. .’: Letters Vol. 2 p. 183.

p. 104 ‘The best readings. .’: Real Presences , Faber, 1989 p. 17.

p. 104 ‘syllabus of enacted. .’: ibid p. 20.

p. 105 ‘very thorough in. .’: Letters Vol. 5 p. 473.

p. 106 ‘the judgment may. .’: Sea and Sardinia , Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1944 p. 131.

p. 109 ‘Blair has been. .’: Letters Vol. 7 p. 641.

p. 112 ‘she lifted her. .’: Letters Vol. 3 p. 40.

p. 112 ‘Now it is. .’: Poems p. 716.

p. 112 ‘apples on tall. .’: Letters Vol. 7 p. 455, discussed by Sagar in D. H. Lawrence: Life into Art , Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1985 p. 341.

p. 112 ‘it is just. .’: Letters Vol. 2 p. 692.

p. 113 ‘the apples blown. .’: Letters Vol. 3 p. 216.

p. 113 ‘seems already a. .’: Letters Vol. 5 p. 282.

p. 114 ‘Since Lawrence died. .’: quoted by Janet Byrne in A Genius for Living , Bloomsbury, 1995 p. 376.

p. 115 ‘Whoever reads me. .’: Letters Vol. 5 p. 201.

p. 115 ‘What do I. .’: Phoenix p. 232.

pp. 115 ‘I enjoy looking. .’: quoted by Janet Byrne p. 376.

p. 116 ‘tapping out an. .’: ‘Elegy: D. H. Lawrence’ in The Essential Rebecca West , Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1983 p. 392.

p. 116 ‘I feel there. .’: Letters Vol. 4 p. 304.

p. 116 ‘wearied himself to. .’: Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1950, p. 33.

p. 117 ‘When I drive. .’: Letters Vol. 2 p. 431.

p. 117 ‘always be a. .’: ibid p. 434

pp. 118 ‘So vivid a. .’: ibid pp. 459–60.

p. 121 ‘not so much. .’: Letters Vol. 4 p. 235.

pp. 121 ‘The land is. .’: ibid p. 238.

p. 122 ‘Have you noticed. .’: Vol. 2, Penguin, Harmondsworth, p. 508.

p. 122 ‘the one bright. .’: ‘Why the Novel Matters’, Phoenix p. 535.

p. 122 ‘the highest form. .’: ‘The Novel’, Phoenix II p. 416.

p. 122 ‘In our time. .’: op cit p. 383.

p. 123 ‘Their freedom of. .’: Testaments Betrayed , Faber, 1995 p. 160.

p. 123 ‘a new art. .’: The Art of the Novel , Faber, 1988 p. 65.

p. 124 ‘A book which. .’: Letters Vol. 2 p. 479.

p. 126 ‘One’s native land. .’: Letters Vol. 5 p. 312.

p. 128 ‘the least reticent. .’: op cit p. 166.

p. 132 ‘This is a. .’: Damn You, England , Faber, 1994 pp. 193–4.

p. 132 ‘living in a. .’: ibid p. 15.

p. 132 ‘the root of. .’: ibid p. 195.

p. 132 ‘Curse you, my. .’: Letters Vol. 1 p. 424.

p. 132 ‘I curse my. .’: Letters Vol. 3 p. 92.

p. 132 ‘If thine eye. .’: Letters Vol. 2 p. 414.

p. 134 Volentieri: quoted by Paul Carter in Living in a New Country , Faber, 1992 p. 154.

p. 135 ‘It is the. .’: Letters Vol. 5 p. 495.

p. 135 ‘We can so. .’: ‘Requiem for a Friend’, The Selected Poetry p. 85.

p. 135 ‘The tragedy of. .’: Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1961 p. 212.

p. 136 ‘from The Rainbow . .’: quoted by Janet Byrne p. 411.

p. 136 ‘sick with fatigue’ etc.: Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1960 pp. 149–51.

p. 137 ‘I looked down. .’: ibid p. 158.

p. 137 ‘the dangerous privilege. .’: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1986 p. 8.

p. 138 ‘To know serenity. .’: Engaging Form , Cape, 1988 p. 85.

p. 139 ‘He who returns. .’: ‘Adioses’, Plenos Poderes , Losada, Buenos Aires, 1962 p. 461.

p. 139 ‘I feel I. .’: Letters Vol. 4 p. 263.

p. 139 ‘grew together as. .’: Cape, 1987 p. 50.

p. 139 ‘Oh Schwiegermutter it. .’: Letters Vol. 4 p. 238.

p. 140 ‘This place no. .’: Letters Vol. 7 p. 651.

p. 141 ‘Either you go. .’: Letters Vol. 5 p. 170.

p. 141 ‘Freedom is a. .’: ibid p. 191.

p. 142 ‘he did nothing. .’: quoted by Rebecca West p. 395.

p. 142 ‘ you’ve always done . .’: ‘The Life with a Hole in It’, Collected Poems , edited by Anthony Thwaite, Faber, 1988 p. 202.

p. 142 ‘My wife and. .’: Letters Vol. 3 p. 734.

p. 142 ‘The only history. .’: Letters Vol. 2 p. 161.

pp. 142 ‘We had almost. .’: Letters Vol. 4 p. 175.

p. 143 ‘It is my. .’: Letters Vol. 4 p. 238.

p. 143 ‘Really, why does. .’: Letters Vol. 7 p. 165.

p. 143 ‘Each one of. .’: Faber, 1987 p. 48.

p. 144 ‘Basically it’s none. .’: Letters on Cézanne , Cape, 1989 p. 8.

p. 144 ‘Naturally I don’t. .’: Letters Vol. 5 p. 45.

p. 144 ‘I have painted. .’: ibid p. 570.

p. 145 ‘Lawrence was always. .’: quoted by Janet Byrne p. 310.

p. 145 ‘the washing, cooking. .’: Letters Vol. 4 p. 111.

p. 147 ‘By now, it. .’: ‘Fine Adjustments’, Acrimony , Faber, 1986 p. 77.

p. 148 ‘ The photograph . .’: Letters Vol. 5 p. 208.

p. 150 ‘I owe you. .’: Letters Vol. 2 p. 505.

p. 150 ‘remind Frieda. .’: ‘Of course Frieda. .’: ibid p. 654 and p. 658.

p. 150 ‘can’t help feeling. .’: Letters Vol. 6 p. 542.

p. 151 ‘I am thoroughly. .’: Sea and Sardinia , p. 28.

p. 151 ‘Does the return. .’: Letters Vol. 4 pp. 375–6.

p. 151 ‘I don’t want. .’: Letters Vol. 3 p. 519.

p. 152 ‘everybody is hard. .’: The Letters 1857–1880, edited by Francis Steegmuller, Harvard, Cambridge, 1982 p. 156.

p. 153 ‘to absorb himself. .’: op cit p. xxxi.

p. 154 ‘painting and fucking. .’: op cit p. 365.

p. 155 ‘Painting is a. .’: Letters Vol. 5 p. 619.

p. 156 ‘an even more. .’: op cit p. xxvi.

p. 156 ‘I shall turn. .’: I have departed slightly from Walter Kaufmann’s translation of this line from The Gay Science p. 223.

p. 160 ‘No, I don’t. .’ etc.: Letters Vol. 4 p. 108.

p. 161 ‘I feel my. .’: ibid p. 98.

p. 161 ‘marvellous air, marvellous. .’: ibid p. 239.

p. 161 ‘If all goes. .’: Selected Letters p. 192.

p. 162 ‘the life-exhaustion feeling. .’: Letters Vol. 4 p. 189.

p. 162 ‘no life of. .’: ibid p. 406.

p. 162 ‘Suddenly that I. .’: ibid p. 168.

p. 163 ‘people who rave. .’: Letters Vol. 7 p. 489.

p. 163 ‘one of those. .’: Letters Vol. 4 p. 113.

p. 163 ‘one does nothing . .’: Sea and Sardinia p. 76.

p. 163 ‘of more and. .’: quoted by Sagar p. 354.

p. 164 ‘So Mabel thought. .’: Brenda Maddox, The Married Man , Sinclair-Stevenson, 1994 p. 367.