Good Morning, Midnight (1938) by Jean Rhys

p. 10 -something i remembered

p. 12 -change my luck if i changed my name
         -the hole in the carpet

p. 15 -life is difficult

p. 29 -let’s argue this out... i didn’t even think it.

p. 38 -a room, the business of rooms, hide from the wolves outside

pp. 41-42 -cliche, drown, the hole in the carpet

p. 46 -my life

p. 52 -one day, the fierce wolf that walks by my side

p. 81 -the power of money, change the sheets, shut the world out

p. 86 -eternity in front of you

pp. 90-91 -plunged in a dream... heaven of indifference

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p. 45
p. 91 -the answer, the final answer, to everything

pp. 95-98 -the painter’s story, cruelty

p. 100 -the touch of the human hand

p. 103 -the extreme Left (funny) (he also made his “west african” masks “straight from the congo”)

p. 106 -weighted, chained

p. 125 -i didn’t mind the bugs, i didn’t mind anything

p. 132 -“white-slave traffic, “very beautiful, most true”

p. 133 -i wish there’d be another war

p. 136 -drawers fall off (2 anecdotes)

pp. 140-141 -the story (a bastardization of wuthering heights?)

p. 142 -eternity fades out, luck chang[ing]

p. 153 - “Underneath I'm indifferent. . . . the bitter peace that is very near to death, to hate. . . .”

p. 155 -never been young

p. 161 -not like other women - yes, but all women say that too

p. 162 -little black boy in a top hat, a monster

p. 167 - “don’t you know any long words”

p. 172 -fall into blackness

p. 176 -film-mind

p. 179 -“something racial” - accounting for the gigolo’s differences. p. 157 he’d be “up against racial” issues in england

p. 182 - “it hurts, when you have been dead, to come alive”

p. 187 -enormous machine, made of white steel

p. 189 - “sale cerveau” - tr.: dirty mind