Domestic Interior

Contents

Contents Part I:Neighbors I ObserveThis Morphic Field  Domestic Interior  Private School  Bougainvillea  Neighbors inTheir Own Bunkers  How CouldWe Decorate a Haunted House?  Calm Down!  Library  Saying Good-bye to theWorldWar II Generation  No Irish NeedApply  Massachusetts  Part II:Education “Liking Something Is Not Enough”  Diagnosis: Psychosis  Time,Waste of  See, e.g., Hildegarde, Fatima, Blake, McLuhan  Invective  Prescription Pills  Snobs  Marble Obelisk  Education  Part III:Folie à Deux Pension,Venezia  TenYears  TheTemper  TheAlcoholic and the Ball and Chain  Legal Separation  John Barleycorn  After the End, Hope for the Beginning  Peace  Part IV:NotToo Serious Self-Portrait at the End of the First Half of My Life  NotToo Serious  The Staff Lounge  The Divorce of Mr. and Mrs. Moore  Camp  The Satanists Next Door  Supervision  Husbandry  Dolphins  Roommates: Noblesse Oblige, Sprezzatura, and Gin Lane  The Family Jewels  PartV:The Mother Hope for the Hopeless  Indoors  The Devouring Father  Keeping  Coloring Book  St. Dymphna  Black andWhite  “TheAbyss Stares Back atYou”  TheWorldWillAsk forYour Greed, Envy, and Sloth  Good-bye  Souls in Purgatory  The Mother Becomes the Mother of Herself asWell  Notes  Acknowledgments  ...