the gloomy eastern europeans--kafka & schulz, especially; gogol & turgenev; par lagerqvist (the dwarf); faulkner, flannery o'conner, donald barthleme, richarrd brautigan, jane austen, charlotte bronte, russell edson, ana hatherly (portuguese), some special editors, people i meet in passing, erotic moments of all kinds, cats who use my manuscripts to sleep on, celan, wallace stevens, yeats, william stafford, the UCB library, winnicott, leibniz, heidegger, wittgenstein, lots of philosophy of science, highway 5, little streets in Paris, weird industrial sections on the outskirts of town, friends, all my students, my son and the journey being a mother
