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Название книги: Fear Of Flying
Автор(ы): Erica Jong
Жанр: Современная проза
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Acknowledgments
Chapter 12, “The Madman,” originally appeared in Ms. in a slightly different form.“The 8:29 to Frankfurt” by Erica Mann originally appeared in the Beloit Poetry Journal, Winter 68/69.“The Man Under the Bed” originally appeared in Fruits amp; Vegetables, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971, © Erica Mann Jong 1968, 1970, 1971.
ForGrace Darling GriffinAnd for my grandfather,Samuel MirskyThanks to my intrepid editors: Aaron Asher and Jennifer Josephy. And thanks to the National Endowment for the Arts for a grant which helped.And thanks to Betty Anne Clark, Anita Gross, Ruth Sullivan, Mimi Bailin, and Linda Bogin.And thanks especially to the live-in muse who gave me a room of my own from the start.
Alas! the love of women! it is knownTo be a lovely and a fearful thing;For all of theirs upon that die is thrown,And if ’tis lost, life hath no more to bringTo them but mockeries of the past alone,And their revenge is as the tiger’s spring,Deadly, and quick, and crushing; yet, as realTorture is theirs-wh