Other books and authors mentioned in The Hothouse with a note of reference.
e.e. cumminings
"he was a handsome man / and what i want to know is / how do you like your blue-eyed boy / Mister Death."
(Keetenheuve was a reader and devotee of contemporary poetry)
"o molle enchanteresse," my sweet, my soft, my warm rapture, o my soft,my smooth, my enraptured word;
Keetenhueve is translating this French poet at his desk and mourning the loss of his wife, Elke.
Sagesse by Paul Verlaine
Das Kapital
(Capital #1-3) by Karl Marx
Did you or did you not on 9 August 1928 take out Das Kapital by Karl
Marx from the National Library in Berlin, and did you or did you not
tell your then girlfriend Sonia Busen not to remove her shirt, since it
was more important to study Das Kapital?
There was buzz and there was talk, and screams and creaks and squawks
from mouths and loudspeakers, and yells and barks, oaths and smacks and
shouts coming through the expert's cheapo walls in the form of Iphigenia
in Tauris and the lottery results, and the miner remembers the pit, he
thinks his way back down the long shaft, and thinks: Out there, when the
pneumatic drills are droning, when the rocks are crunching and
splitting, it's quiet in the middle of the din.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Keetenheuve 's invented character whom he called Musaeus (the butler of the President) read a lot of Goethe
Frederick the Great On The Art of War
Frost-Forestier opens a volume of the works of Frederick the Great. He
reads Frederick's dodgy French. He examines an engraving, a picture of
the King with the face of a greyhound.
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