Vanishing Point: A Novel by David Markson

Author:David Markson [Markson, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781593760106
Google: ep5WngEACAAJ
Amazon: 1593760108
Publisher: Shoemaker & Hoard
Published: 2004-01-01T06:00:00+00:00

Charlotte Bronte mailed off the unsolicited, pseudonymous manuscript of Jane Eyre to a London publisher on August 24, 1847.

And saw it in print seven weeks and four days later.

Maria Callas, on her conflicts with Rudolf Bing over repertory:

Those lousy Traviatas he wanted to make me do.

The Marquis de Sade’s will asked that his coffin not be sealed for at least forty-eight hours—-to make certain he was dead.

Leopold Bloom’s notion, at Paddy Dignam’s funeral, that there ought to be a telephone in the grave. And an airhole.

Chopin. By whom the words Jew and pig were used interchangeably.

Yid, having been Dostoievsky’s choice.

Author is experimenting with keeping himself out of here as much as possible because?

Can he really say? Why does he still have no idea whatever where things are headed either?

Where can the book possibly wind up without him?

I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.

Said Darwin.

All life is an experiment.

Said Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Ravel weighed less than one hundred pounds.

The standard Italian translation of Moby Dick is by Cesare Pavese.

Lex talionis.

In his later years, Titian was exempted from almost all taxes in Venice.

Out of regard for his rare excellence, the government decreed.

It depends on what the meaning of the word is is.

There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.

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