November 9, 1953. St. Vincent’s Hospital, Seventh Avenue and West 11th Street, New York. 
Acute alcoholic insult to the brain. (247)
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Taliesin. (248)
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Willem de Kooning lived as an illegal immigrant for his first thirty years in the United States. (249)
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On one of Reader’s windowsills: framed photographs of his son and daughter, a scuffed baseball, a sunbleached knotted root plucked from the Ebro. (250)
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Poe was expelled from West Point for refusing to obey military orders. Later, James McNeill Whistler would fail there academically. (251)
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Why is it commonly referred to as the Arnolfini Marriage, or even the Arnolfini Betrothal, when she is seven months pregnant? (252)
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Im Westen Nichts Neues. (253)
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Decades afterward, locked indelibly in Reader’s mind the last two pages of Good Morning, Midnight. (254)
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The rape scene from The Fountainhead burned into mine.

Ernest Hemingway was an anti-Semite. (255)
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Ingenious nonsense, Isaac Newton dismissed poetry as. (256)
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