Francis Stuart, Black List, Section H [1971] (London: Martin Brian & O'Keeffe 1975)

Index of subjects and motifs

[Note: The entries in this index have been copied from the reading-notes previously pencilled on the back-pages of my own copy of Black List, Section H (1975 Edn) — BS/RICORSO.]

dishonour 17, 44, 204 [Julie ... Jewish] 248, 251, 262, 269, 270, 308, 333, 369.
Jews, 64, 66 [jewess], 195, 249, 270 [his destiny bound him to them in a manner more obscure than their present defenders].
Poet, 74.
private war, 82
Jesus [Chapt. 20], 139ff.
Yeats, man and mask, 145; Yeats and the common dream, 185 [“What portion in the world can the artist have / Who has awakened from the common dream / But dissipaton and despair?”]
parochial clock, 146;
artist as criminal, 173
Lourdes, 162
Liam O'Flaherty, 186ff.
company of outlaws, 402
Celine, 196
artists driven beyond old assumptions; ultra-responsive neurological systems, and extreme isolating factor, 232 [exposed place];
betting as mind-expander 244;
doing sums a la Bloom, 246
precalculated literature, 249
Stuartian fiction, 250
Stalin - antithesis of mediocrity [280, 333]
liberal or anti-authoritarian, 281
Imagination, 281; 331 [my guilty, flawed imagination]
Wartime diary - extract 308
traitor, 311;
dangerously close identification, 332
sexual desire, emotion 351
outside lines of communication, 390.
Psyche, 163 ['psyche's secret song']; 165 [psyche ... rough description]; 257 [his was not an unbelievable psyche. What it needed ... was a concept of reality deep enough to lose itself in.]; 269 [Fantasies .. psyche]; 317 [psychic earthquake]; 375, 377 [bombings ... 'ap0parent vulnerability of the nucleus at the core of the cosmic structure ... appalled him];
Keats , obsession, 373, 361,
obsessive, 162, 164, 180, 185, 349, 387.
wasn't ready for K, 311
most interesting 5 years, 311
Jane Austen, 315
Lord Haw-Haw, 317
his own kind of sexuality, 375
Grammar, 328
tenderness, 385
personal modes of thought,. 387
Hitler's experience [heroic criminality], 391
outside lines of communication, 390
W. B. Yeats / MIAL 218
meets his father [Chianti drunk; chromosomes .. base of his being ... toxic trance], 178
Had he been born with this preference for outlaws? [402]
specific perversion / rhymes with early civil war fantasy [410]

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