Things I jotted down while reading "The Secret History, by Donna Tartt, 1992
Benjamin Jowett
Periclean Athens
Balliol Rymme
Doggerals
Clerihew
stereopticon
bilous
Hesiod's primordal chaos
Josephine Baker
Liddell and Scott
Kouroi
London, by Pennant
Byron's Marino Faliero
"A mock thalos, Doric by way of Pomeii"
Elizabeth and Leicester
Emma Bovary
Alexander Pope
Duc de Saint-Simon
piquet (card game)
Vanity Fair (book
"Twelve Great Cultures"
Constable (writer? book?)
John Donne
Izaak Walton
Rupert Brook (poet)
"The Gautama"
Brian Eno
the Pantheon
Hegel
The Sitwells
Pindar
"Borges, the writer"
Martin Bormann
Artaud
The Fleshtones
"Traumerei"
telestic madness
"Bakcheia"
"To escape cognative mode of expression"
chiton
Pythia
oreibasia
Khairei
Carracci
Pyrrhic
"epigram of Callimachus"
Ilion
Mrs. Gamp
hoi polloi
Pliny
Comun, Tifernum
Malacca Chair
bibelot
Arthur Rimbaud
The Greeks and the Irrational Dodos
Ray Milland The Lost Weekend
Howdah
Attic vases, Meissen Porcelain, Alma-Tadema, Frith
Jean Cocteau
dado
"Philistine" in context of a modern person
exordium, Palinurus
Theophile Gautier
Vigny's Chatterton
Schliemanns, Ilios
excavation of Hissarlik
antelion
Morris Lee Harden
Anwar Sadat
Golda Meir
garrulous
ecumenical, bravura
A.E.Houseman (poet)
"With rue my love is laden
Lycidas, gladiola
Morphia
Phaedo
Marcel Proust
George Sand
ebullient
Cortes, Gregory of Tours
"Mycenaean inscriptions from Knossos"
Spleenwort
Davy Balfour from Kidnapped
P.G. Wodehouse
Pluto and Persephone
Harold Acton
"duty, piety, loyalty, sacrifice"
Proust
"Jacobian dramatists:" Webster, Middleton, Tourngur and Ford
The Malcontent, The White Devil, The Broken Heart
Christopher Marlowe,
Raleigh and Nashe
"But ture, I cried too much /
the dawns are heartbreaking
Our Mutual Friend
"Dust thou art, to dust thou shalt return>"
Hagin Sophia
Orpheus
St. Basil's in Moscow
Chartres
Salisbury and Amiens
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