Wittgenstein’s Mistress: An Index

A. D. Jameson

14 years ago

A while back, while doing some critical writing about Wittgenstein’s Mistress, I found myself desperately wishing that it had an index…so I made an index. I’m pasting it below; enjoy.

Notes:

Be warned! I’m sure there are errors. (If you find any, please let me know, as well as any other revisions, comments, or suggestions.)
Underlined entries are incomplete; underlined page numbers are uncertain.
Italics indicate pages where the corresponding entry is referenced but not actually named. (There aren’t very many of these.)

The Index

Achilles: 8, 21–2, 24–5, 40, 62–3, 83, 87, 94–5, 98, 101–3, 127, 137, 146–7, 151–2, 154, 194
accoutrements: 87
Acropolis, the: 42, 45, 54, 109
Adam: child 9; husband 24, 222–3, 225–7
Adriatic Sea, the: 18–9, 22
Aegean (southern): 73
Aegean Sea, the: 19, 22, 43, 102, 235
Aeschylus: 16, 38, 81, 151, 154, 197
Agamemnon: 24–5, 44, 86, 151, 196–8, 201–2
Akhmatova, Anna: 73, 84, 162, 208, 229
alarm clock: see clock, alarm
Alaska: 16
Alexander the Great: 97–9, 127, 137
Alexandra (Cassandra): 97
Alexandros (Paris?): 97
Allegheny, the: 192
Alto Rhapsody, The: 23, 37–8, 46, 117, 151, 173, 213, 240
America: 215, 234; see United States, the
American Colonial Room: 25
Amsterdam: Netherlands 12, 139, 142, 157; New York 83
ankle, broken/sprained: 49, 50–1, 63, 130, 183, 189, 220–1
Anna Karenina: 93, 172, 229
Arabia: 178–9, 229
Archimedes: 60, 62, 109, 146, 159, 179–80
Argos: 215
Argus: 203–6, 228
Aristotle: 43, 60, 97, 100, 112, 137
Arno, the: 13, 36, 58, 104, 231
arthritis: 131, 160–1, 183, 220–1
Astyanax: 97, 235
Athens: 9, 42–4, 109
atlas: 151, 181, 197, 237–8
August (month): 237
Avril, Jane: 61, 92, 98, 112, 125, 169
Bach: 118–9, 123, 174, 234
Bach ianas Brasileiras: 213, 218
Baez, Joan: 15, 77, 113, 209
baggage: mental 15, 17, 19, 72–3, 87, 189; physical 30, 52, 107, 169
Barthes, Jacques: 211, 218
baseball: 53–4, 60, 62–3, 95–6, 116, 119, 161, 164, 178, 190
Baseball when the Grass Was Real: 54, 63, 95–6, 116, 190
Bayonne, New Jersey: 34, 52
beach: 114, 126, 129, 193, 233, 239–40
Beethoven (book): 93, 95, 101
Beethoven: 92–3, 95, 100, 115, 169, 235; Beethoven’s 9^th Symphony 100
Bellini, Gentile: 111
Bellini, Giovanni: 61, 105, 111, 137
Bellini, Vincenzo: 104–5, 111, 169
Bering Strait, the: 16, 70
Berlioz, Hector: 15, 64, 117, 152, 173
Bethlehem: Israel 29; Pennsylvania 81
Bidú, Sayão: 213
blindness: 125–6, 130, 167, 192
Bordeaux: 52, 175
Borghese Gallery, the: 67, 70, 108, 187
Botticelli: 138
bottles, broken: 128–9, 152–3
Bourdeaux: 12
Brahms: 115
Brahms’ mother: 64
Brahms, Johannes: 23, 37–9, 46–7, 51, 54–5, 61, 64–5, 73, 75–6, 79, 82, 84, 93, 95, 98, 100, 111, 115, 118–9, 124–5, 151, 168–9, 170, 173, 191, 213, 237–9; Brahms’s First Symphony 100; A Life of Brahms, A 93, 98, 115; The Life of Brahms 98, 115
Brando, Marlon: 94, 178, 207
Briseis: 101, 103
Broken Bottles, The: 153, 219
Brontës, the: 105, 172; sisters 20, 97; Branwell 97; Emily 96–7, 126, 134, 154, 186
Brooke, Rupert: 59, 102–3, 127, 147, 162, 235
Brooklyn Dodgers: 119, 121
Bruegel: 36, 235
Brunelleschi: 35, 104, 234; Brunelleschi’s dome 35, 104, 234
Buddhist antiquities: 189
Butler, Samuel: 102–3, 118, 165
Byzantine antiquities: 189
Byzantium: 70
Cádiz: 43, 84–5, 175
Caesar, Julius: 29, 127
Caligula: 59
Callas, Maria: 26, 104–6, 108, 110–2, 116, 136, 175, 207
Calpurnia: 59, 187
Calvary: 120
Cambridge: 170, 191, 220
Campy: see Campanella, Roy “Campy”
Campanella, Roy “Campy”: 191 (presumably), 121, 190; conflated with Charles “Casey” Stengel 212; see also Stengel, Charles “Casey”
Canary Islands, the: 43
canvas: 24–5, 37, 44–5, 48–51, 59, 64, 130, 183, 187–8, 188, 233
Cassandra: 43–4, 47, 70, 96–7, 145–6, 151–2, 188, 197, 198–200, 202
castle in La Mancha: 32, 39, 94, 158, 229, 240
cat: 22, 28, 31, 37, 132, 144, 200, 202–3, 215–8, 227; cat at the Colosseum 28–30, 36, 42, 59, 61, 85, 133–4, 144, 217, 231; Rembrandt (Kate’s russet cat) 132–5, 143–4, 149–50, 203, 206, 208–10, 215, 216, 217, 220–1, 223, 225; cat that Medea gave Helen 217; Rembrandt’s cat 59, 134, 203–6, 216–7; scratching tape 26, 38, 62–4, 133–4, 138, 144, 148, 217, 220, 239; Vincent? 145?, 150?, 239; Simon’s 134, 222–225, 227
Catholic Church: 166
Central Park: 52
Cervantes: 157–8
Cézanne: 24, 138, 154
Cherubini, Luigi: 104, 110–1
children: 123–6, 141, 169–70, 196–9, 224–5, 234–5
China: 17
Christians, the: 28, 144, 150
Churchill, Winston: 20, 177, 207
cigarettes: 19, 119, 158–9, 204
Cimabue: 137, 145, 148–9
Cléopatre: 61, 92
clock, alarm: 27, 143, 196
clothes: 130, 148, 150, 155–6, 184, 240; shirts; skirts; soccer shirt 238–9, 239; underpants 155–6, 184
Clytemnestra: 16, 24, 25, 82, 151, 177, 179, 196–9, 201–2
Colosseum, the: 28–30, 36, 42, 59, 61, 85, 133–4, 144, 217, 231
Connecticut, Southern: 48, 109, 219
Constantinople: 70
Convent Garden: 73, 131
Corinth, Greece: 109
Corinth, Mississippi: 27
Corinth, NY: 132–3, 135
Crete: 155, 158
Cuernavaca: 30, 134
Cyclades Islands, the: 73
Damascus, Syria: 29, 229
Damnation of Faust: 173
Danube, the: 192
Dardenelles: 8–9, 59, 102, 235
Dares the Phrygian: 155
Dasein: 215
Daumier: 130, 134, 138
David: 148
David, Jacques Louis: 155
da Vinci, Leonardo: 36, 58–9, 68–9, 81, 86, 123–4, 148, 185, 232
Degas: 130–1
de Kooning, William: 56, 135–6, 138, 140, 143, 145–50, 203, 228
del Sarto, Andrea: 36, 58, 130–1, 137, 235
de la Cruz, Sor Juana Inés: 18, 20, 72, 93, 165–6, 173, 217, 235; as Sister Joan Inez of the Cross 217
de Maupassant, Guy: 42, 61, 100, 111, 121–2, 234
Delft: 120, 140–1, 143, 186, 206
della Francesca, Piero: 83, 87, 130, 139, 145
de Oca, Marco Antonio Montes: 18, 20, 84, 93, 166–7, 173, 210
depression: 83–5, 88, 221–2, 227–9, 232
Descent from the Cross, The: 12, 87, 116, 233
di Cosimo, Piero: 87, 105, 130, 139, 235
Dictys of Crete: 155
Don Quixote de la Mancha: novel 18, 39, 158, 229; fictional character 158, 229
Donatello: 35, 137, 234
Donizetti, Gaetano: 110–1
Dostoievski, Fyodor: 17, 108, 112, 125, 154, 229
Dürer, Albrecht: 105, 172
Dutch: ethnicity 135, 138; language 142–3
Egypt: of antiquity 51; dead Egyptians 97, 231
Eiffel Tower, the: 42, 87, 122, 219, 234; book The Eiffel Tower 96, 219
El Greco: 18, 39, 44, 61, 82, 129–30, 150, 157, 191
Electra: 16, 25, 47, 177, 179, 188, 197–9, 202; as Elektra 179
English (language): 45, 48, 164, 172, 176–7, 179, 207, 215–6
equidistance: 91, 127, 144–5, 149–50, 158, 225, 232
Erased de Kooning Drawing: 56
Esther (Kate’s aunt): 26, 167, 235
Euripides: 16, 26, 38, 45, 81, 101, 111–2, 154, 164, 194–6,
Europe: 8, 26
Fabritius, Carel: 120, 140–3, 147–50, 186, 204, 206, 222
Fallen Tree Avenue: 212
father (Kate’s): 68–9, 119, 226
Faust: 173
Faust: 173
Faust Symphony: 173
Ferrier, Kathleen: 38, 48, 51, 55, 113, 115, 169, 213
fire: 129–30, 152–3, 155, 195, 205, 220, 224, 231, 238–9
First Symphony: see Brahms, Johannes
Flagstad, Kirsten: 46, 52, 113–4, 213
Flaubert, Gustave: 111, 121, 200
Florence: 13, 35–6, 58, 104, 106, 193, 234
Four Last Songs: 51, 114–5, 118, 218
Four Serious Songs: 51, 115
framed snapshot of Kate’s son: 167, 227
Frankenthaler, Helen: 72, 211
French: ethnicity 173, 131; language 78
Gaddi, Taddeo: 27, 36, 58, 143, 144–5, 158, 217
Gaddis, William: 27, 36, 84–5, 93, 143–4, 150, 210, 214
Galileo: 159, 167, 179–80, 185–6, 206
Galway Bay, Ireland: 174–5, 218
garbage disposal area: 128–9, 132–3, 152–3, 217–9
Gaugin: 131–2, 154, 191
Gazelle: 61, 92
Gehrig, Lou: 119, 190; as Stan Gehrig 235; see also Lou Gehrig’s Disease
Gentileschi, Artemisia: 159, 166–7, 212, 228
Germany: 173; German language 164, 168, 172, 177, 181, 206; German people 173–4
gesso: 24, 37, 44–5, 188, 233
Ghiberti: 137
Gioconda, La: 81–2; see Mona Lisa, The
Giorgione: 137
Giotto: 36, 67, 87, 137, 144–5, 148–50, 189, 217, 234
Goethe: 172–3
Gombrich, E.H.: 211
Gonoud: 173
Goya, Francisco de: 18, 132
Greece: 9, 18–19, 47–8, 109, 112, 152, 197; Greek language 43, 45, 56–57, 158, 164, 177, 193, 231; Greek people 8, 13, 39–40, 43, 60, 70, 93, 98, 103–4, 194, 239; Greek antiquity 51
Greek plays (ancient): 16, 37–8, 96, 102, 164, 177, 195, 197
Greek ships*: 86, 126, 194–6
Greer, Germaine: 60, 209
Hades: 154
Hals, Frans: 138
Hampstead Heath: 11, 73
Handel, George Frederick: 169, 192
Hébuterne, Jeanne: 103, 155, 235
Hector: 22, 25, 44, 93–4, 97, 102, 137, 151–2, 235
Hecuba: 93–4
Heidegger, Martin: 72, 95–6, 99, 167–8, 171–2, 206–7, 215–6, 223
Helen (narrator): 228; see also Kate
Helen of Troy: 8, 16, 21, 23–6, 40, 58–60, 70, 82, 93, 96–8, 103, 124, 126, 152, 154–5, 193–6, 199–201, 217, 222
Hellespont: 8–9, 59, 102, 235
Hepburn, Clara: 239
Hepburn, Katharine: 26, 93, 94, 109, 125, 169, 207; see Hepburn, Clara
Hermione: 58, 60–1, 103, 136
Hermitage, The: 17, 70, 83, 183
Herodotus: 29, 43, 152, 187, 189, 192
Hindu antiquities: 189
Hisarlik: 64, 97, 126, 155, 239
Hodgson, Ralph: 58, 147, 208
Holland: 105, 120
Homer: 13, 103–4, 125–6, 194–6, 206, 215; Homeric 57
Housman, A.E.: 191, 235
Icarus: 49, 183
Ictinus: 43
Iliad, The: 13, 49, 98, 126, 137, 155, 194–6, 200, 233
Ionian Sea: 22
Iphigenia: 86, 235
Ireland: 174
Istanbul: 70
Italy: 32–3, 106, 112, 188; ethnicity 36, 173; language 13
Ithaca: 22, 57, 101, 148, 200–1, 204; New York 65
Japanese (language): 91, 127
Jeep: 30, 39, 113, 224
Jesus: 120
Jewish (language): 142; see also Judaism
Joyce, James: 235
Juárez, Benito: 17, 178
Judaism: 70, 117, 148; see Jewish (language)
Karenina, Anna: 17, 56, 83, 217–8
Kate (narrator): 33, as Helen 228
Keats, John: 13; as Giovanni Keats 13, 30, 235; as Johannes Keats 172
Keeper: 154, 186
ketch: 18–9, 43, 75, 197
Kierkegaard: 72, 95, 96, 99, 171, 217
Klytaemnestra: 179
La Mancha: 32, 39, 158
Lake Como: 30, 175
Lancaster, PA: 109–10
Land Rover: 52, 104, 160
Last Supper, The: 68–70, 83, 117, 148, 185
Latin (language): 142
Lawrence of Arabia: 23, 93, 175–80, 229; Lawrence of Arabia (film) 176–8
Leeuwenhoek: 186, 206
Leningrad: 56, 70, 192
Lesbos: 19, 57, 175, 197
Lévi-Strauss, Claude: as Jacques Lévi-Strauss 211, 218, 228
Life of Brahms, A: see Brahms
Life of Brahms, The: see Brahams
Lincoln, Abraham: 191
Lippi, Fra Filippo: 193, 218
Liszt: 173–4
Littiz, Pennsylvania: 28, 65, 109–10, 238
loft in SoHo (Kate’s): 143, 149, 213, 223, 228
Loire, the: 21, 77
London: 7, 11, 20, 22, 24–5, 73, 74, 97, 110, 127, 205
loneliness: 231–2, 240
Long Island Sound: 48, 109, 219
looking: 84, 134, 188, 192–3, 224, 230
Lorrain, Claude: 136, 147
Lou Gehrig’s Disease: 167, 190; see also Gehrig, Stan
Louvre: 7, 9, 10, 14, 81, 155
Lucia di Lammermoor: 110, 115, 175
Lucien: lover 83–4, 87, 143; son 222–227
Ludwig (lover): 227
madness: 81, 121, 130, 138, 154, 189, 192, 198, 224, 230–2, 234
Madness of Ulysses, The: 82
Madrid: 12, 18, 120, 132
Magdalena: 234
Magritte: 212, 220, 227, 239
Magritte Road: 212–3
Maiden Lane: 73, 131
Mantegna, Andrea: 105, 111–2
Massachusetts: 193
Medea: person 60, 101, 104, 109, 154, 217, 235; Medea (play) 26, 104–5, 108, 110
Medici, the: 86, 185
Mediterranean Sea, the: 64, 106–7, 160
Memling, Hans, 138
Menelaus: 60, 82, 123, 199–200, 202
menstruation: 10, 48–50, 88, 90, 96, 101, 123, 155, 183–4, 221
messages (Kate’s): 7, 10, 57–8, 185, 193
Metropolitan Museum: 7, 10–11, 25, 35, 45, 49, 50–2, 115–6, 120, 130
Mexico: 9, 14, 16–8, 21, 24, 30, 165, 178, 223–4; Mexican (ethnicity) 165; Mexican restaurant 74, 75
Michelangelo: 83, 86, 128–9, 130, 134, 143, 148, 185–6, 192, 240
Milan: 68–9, 83
Millais, John Everett: 101
mirror: 9, 67, 69, 155, 185, 188, 226; Kate’s mother’s 33, 35–6, 39, 84, 119, 226, 228; rearview mirror 14, 83, 224
Mississippi: 27
Mississippi, the: 21, 27, 77, 224
mistress: 101, 103, 220
Mlle. Églantine: 61, 92
Modigliani: 67, 103, 108, 231–2
Mona Lisa, The: 82; see Giaconda, La
Monet: 130
Moscow: 17, 70
mother (Kate’s): 49, 67–9, 84, 119, 226, 228
Mount Ida: 8, 75, 154–5
Mozart: 191, 219
Murray, Gilbert: 102, 104, 164, 177, 208
Musial, Stan: as Sam Usual 119; as Stan Usual 190, 207
Naples: 87
National Gallery: 7, 11, 21–2, 120, 143, 148
National Parks: 73
National Portrait Gallery: 20, 22–3, 97
Nero: 28, 59
Nevelson, Louise: 35, 211
New Jersey: 34
New York: 7, 18–9, 29, 65, 193, 223–4
Nietzsche, Frederick: 53, 88, 105, 121, 172, 217, 232
Night Watch, The: 12, 205
Nome: 16
Norma: 104
November (month): 233
Oaxaca: 223–4
Odysseus: 21, 23, 82–3, 94, 98, 101, 117, 154, 190, 194, 200, 204, 228
Odyssey, The: 23–4, 49, 102–4, 118, 154, 178, 194, 200–1, 205, 207, 215; written by a woman 103, 118, 200–1
O’Keeffe, Georgia: 72, 211
Orestes: 47, 188, 197–9, 202
Origin of Table Manners, The: 96, 218–9; see also Lévi-Strauss, Claude
O’Toole, Peter: 94, 176, 207
pain in left shoulder: 159–61, 164, 183, 220–1
painting of beach house: 34, 37–8, 40–2, 45–6, 52–5, 63, 65–6, 92, 150–1, 237–9
painting of Penelope: 148
Pamplona: 12, 132, 175
Papas, Irene: 25–6, 93, 98, 208
paradox: 146, 151
Paris (city): 7, 42, 61, 81, 108, 234
Paris (person): 8, 44, 60, 97, 123, 154–5, 199
Paris dancers?: 98
Parthenon: 9, 42–3, 47, 49, 109
Pascal: 53, 85, 88, 105, 112, 171, 186, 196
Passover: 69–70
Pasteur, Louis: 186, 192, 226
Patroclus: 83, 87, 95, 235
Penelope: 21–2, 31, 43, 101, 148, 200–4
Pennsylvania: 28, 65, 80, 109, 110, 238
Pensées, The: 31, 53, 112
Persepolis: 137
Perugia: 64, 110, 134
Perugino: 145
Phidias: 39, 42–3, 187
Piazza Nuevo, the: 35, 188
Picasso, Pablo: 15, 72, 111–2, 130, 207
pickup truck: 128, 206, 233
Pilate, Pontius: 29,
Pintoricchio: 22–3, 31, 134, 203,
Plato: 97–8, 137
Po, the: 21, 77
Pollock, Jackson: 15, 131, 150, 208
Pont Neuf, the: 81, 155
pope: 86, 159, 192
Pope Urban VIII: 159
potbellied stove: 14, 212, 240
Potomac, the: 192
Prado: 12, 18, 87, 120
prostitution: 61, 111, 121, 123,
pupil: 61, 134, 136–41, 144–5, 147–8, 152, 189, 204, 206,
Queen of England, The: 20, 207
Quintus from Smyrna: 155
rain: 182–5, 189, 221, 222, 227
Rape of Helen, The: 60, 82
Raphael: 139, 145, 152
Raskolnikov, Rodion Romanovitch: 17, 84, 179, 229
Rauschenberg, Robert: 56, 58–9, 79, 101, 135, 228
Recognitions, The: 27, 93, 143, 196
Rembrandt: 12, 58–60, 62, 134–6, 139–42, 147–50, 152, 157, 203–6, 216–7
Rembrandt’s pupils: 58–60, 134, 136, 139–141, 150, 204
Renaissance, the: 35–6, 131, 234
Renoir: 24, 131
Rijksmuseum: 12, 91, 219
Rilke, Rainer Maria: 174–5, 196, 229
Rimini: 64, 110
Rio Grande, the: 21
Robinson, Jackie: 119, 121
Roman antiquity: 51
Romano, Giulio: 139, 145, 152
Romans, the: 28, 82, 144
Rome, Italy: 12, 28–9, 35–6, 64, 67, 108, 187, 234
Rome, New York: 223
roses: 152, 154, 175, 182
rosy-fingered dawn: 13, 128, 221
Roublev, Andrei: 95, 189
rowboat: 43, 70–1, 80, 122, 222
rowing: 42, 61, 70–1, 100, 111, 122
Rubens: 102, 139, 152
Ruskin, John: 100–1, 187, 211, 235
Ruskin, Mrs.: 101, 187
Russell, Bertrand: 61, 99, 127, 137, 147, 170, 195, 208
russet: 133–5, 147–9, 203, 206, 217
Russia: 9, 16, 19, 56, 81, 83, 108, 219
Russian: cinema 95; ethnicity, 189, 219; language 17, 156, 172
Ruth, Babe: 119
salad: 121, 192
Sappho: 60, 62, 86, 96–8, 101, 126, 231, 235
Savona, Italy: 32–3, 37, 69, 106–10, 116, 122, 132, 148, 160, 238
Savona, New York: 193
Scamander, the: 21, 98, 151
Scamandrius: 97
Scamandros: 97
Schapiro, Meyer: 211
Schubert: 191–2, 234
Schumann, Clara: 125, 174, 191, 218
Schumann, Robert: 214, 218, 234
Scyros, Island of: 19, 43, 102, 127, 147
seagull: 29, 30, 38, 48, 79, 84–5, 109, 118, 132, 174–5, 193, 217–8, 230, 238
Seasons, The: 64, 116–7
Seine, the: 14
Shakespeare, William: 21, 38, 45, 101–2, 126–7, 185
Shaw, T.E.: 24, 62, 93, 104, 177–8, 208
Shostakovich: A Biography: 98
Shostakovitch, Dmitri: 17, 87, 98, 175, 192–3, 208
Shostakovitch’s 5th Symphony: 87
Siberia: 70
Sien: 123, 125, 130–1
Silkwood, Karen: 192, 325
Simon: as Kate’s child 9, 14, 16–7, 24, 37, 68–9, 113, 134; as Kate’s husband 52; as Kate’s lover 227
Siqueiros, David Alfara: 17, 74, 188
Sirens, the: 83, 190
Sister Joan Inez of the Cross: see de la Cruz, Sor Juana Inez
Sistine Chapel: 86, 134
skirt sculptures: 85, 240
snapshot of Kate’s son, framed: see framed snapshot of Kate’s son
snow: 104, 129, 155, 233, 235
Socrates: 98, 112, 137
SoHo: 11, 18, 38, 56, 80, 133, 135, 167, 216, 223
Song of Love: 125, 174, 218
Sontag, Susan: 211, 214, 216
Sophocles: 16, 197
Spain: 12, 32, 43, 134
Spanish: ethnicity 39, 82; language 158, 164–5, 173, 223–4
Spanish Steps: 12, 28, 30, 113, 231
Sparta: 48, 82, 109, 152, 194, 199, 201
Spinoza: 139, 142, 157, 191, 204–6, 232, 235
spring (season): 155, 240
spring (stream): 13, 20, 69–70, 76, 84, 88, 155, 161, 184, 219, 238, 240
St. John of the Cross: 157–8, 166, 218
St. Petersburg: 56, 108–9, 112, 125, 192
St. Theresa: 157–8, 217
Stalingrad: 56
Starry Night, The: 129, 153
Steen, Jan: 117, 123, 138, 218
Stein, Gertrude: 113, 208
Stengel, Charles “Casey”: conflated with Roy “Campy” Campanella 212; see also Campanella, Roy “Campy”
stick: 57, 58, 60, 62, 92, 146, 184–5, 193, 231
Stratford-on-Avon: 11, 126–7
Strauss, Richard: 47, 51, 114, 121, 173, 218
Stravinsky, Igor: 51, 115, 207
Stuart, Gilbert: 148
Stupidity Street: 44
sunset: 81, 83, 87, 90, 184, 187, 239
Syracuse: New York 83; Italy 146
Syria: 29, 229
Tate Gallery: 11–3, 110, 205
Tchaikovsky: 100, 115, 169, 234–5
Tchaikovsky’s 6th Symphony: 100
Telemachus: 23, 82–3, 98, 201
Temple of Dendur: 51
tennis: 113–4, 119, 123; tennis balls 12, 28, 113–4, 117, 121, 230
Terry (lover, husband?): 49, 227
Thames, the: 13, 110
Theophanes the Greek: 39, 95, 189, 217
Theotocopoulos, Domenikos: see El Greco
Thomas, Dylan: 20–1, 72, 208
Thursday: 230, 236
Thus Spake Zarathustra: 173
Tiepolo: 60, 82–3, 86, 94
Tintoretto: 86, 137, 152
Titian: 61, 131, 137, 152
Toledo: Ohio 83; Spain 39, 157–8, 217
Torrigiano: 143
Toulouse-Lautrec: 62, 92
Troilus: 96
Trojan Horse: 70
Trojan War: 8, 194–9
Trojan Women, The: play 26, 39, 164, 180, 194; film 93; as Les Troyens 15, 64, 117, 145, 152
Trojans, the: 70, 96, 200
Troy: of antiquity 7–8, 16, 18–9, 22, 44, 81, 93, 98, 101, 103, 126–7, 151–2, 194, 195, 197–200, 239; New York 29, 70
Troyens, Les: see Trojan Women, The
Tsvetayeva, Marina: 72–3, 162, 219, 235
Tuesday: 222, 227
Turkey: 7
Turner, Joseph Mallord William: 11–2, 31, 110, 111, 130, 131, 187, 189
typing: 31, 53, 56, 63, 69, 71, 72, 78, 96, 102, 121, 123, 144, 182, 238, 240; typewriter 46, 192, 220–1, 237, 240
Uccello, Paolo: 139
Uffizi, the: 14, 153, 193, 220
Unfinished Symphony, The: 191
United States, the: 214
Urban VIII, Pope: see Pope Urban VIII
US Civil War, the: 191
Usual, Sam or Stan: see Musial, Stan
Utrillo, Maurice: 130–1, 152, 160, 208
Valadon, Suzanne: 131, 238
van der Goes, Hugo: 87, 105
van der Weyden, Rogier: 12, 87, 116–7, 120, 123, 137–8, 233
Van Dyck: 94, 139, 152
van Gogh, Vincent: 53, 87, 111, 119, 121–3, 125, 129, 130–1, 138, 145, 150, 153–4, 171, 219–20, 235, 239
Velásquez: 18, 39
Venice: 64, 69, 105
Vermeer, Jan: 116–7, 120, 123–4, 138, 140–1, 143, 147, 149, 186, 206
Vermeer’s wife: 141
Verrocchio: 59
Via Vittorio Veneto: 35, 72, 108
Vienna: 125, 170, 191
Villa-Lobos: 213
Vincent (lover): 227
Vivaldi, Antonio: 15, 64, 116–7, 233–4
Volga River, the: 70
Volkswagen: 12, 48, 64, 105–7, 110
Washington, George: 147–8, 195
watch: gold pocket watch 27; wristwatch 26, 28, 81, 188, 231
watchfires: 126, 239
Way of All Flesh, The: 102–3, 118, 165
Way of All Meat, The: 165, 180
Wednesday: 230, 236
Whitehead, Alfred North: 61, 111, 130, 170, 220
Whitman, Walt: 191, 194
window(s): 87, 92, 97, 134, 152, 182–3, 198–9, 225, 237, 239
winter: 129, 202, 224, 233, 236, 240
Wittgenstein, Ludwig: 61, 99–100, 102, 137, 170–171, 174–5, 190–1, 193, 217–8, 220, 239
World War I: 8, 59, 102
World War II: 112
Wuthering Heights: 53, 63, 95, 97, 134
Yugoslavia: 8
Zapata (film): 178
Zapata Emiliano: 17, 21, 94
Zeno: 146, 149, 159, 174
Zurbarán: 39, 132

Quotes

“Andrea senza errori”: 218
“bricolage”: 78, 170
“Dasein”: 168, 170, 180
“Generally, even then, I was lonely”: 31, 240
“Once I had a dream of fame”: 31, 240
“singing birds sweet”: 44, 58, 235
“Somebody is living in the Louvre”: 7
“Somebody is living in the Metropolitan Museum”: 7
“Somebody is living on this beach”: 240
“The world is everything that is the case”: 78–9
“To the castle, a sign must have said”: 39, 95, 240

A. D. Jameson is the author of five books, most recently I FIND YOUR LACK OF FAITH DISTURBING: STAR WARS AND THE TRIUMPH OF GEEK CULTURE and CINEMAPS: AN ATLAS OF 35 GREAT MOVIES (with artist Andrew DeGraff). Last May, he received his Ph.D. in Creative Writing from the Program for Writers at UIC.

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