
- 174 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
"Be with me alwaysâtake any formâdrive me mad!only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!" Thus does Heathcliff beg his dead Cathy in Wuthering Heights. He wants to be hauntedâhe insists on it. Randon Billings Noble does too. Instead of exorcising the ghosts of her past, she hopes for their cold hands to knock at the window and to linger. Be with Me Always is a collection of essays that explore hauntedness by considering how the ghosts of ourpasts cling to us. In a way, all good essays are about the things that haunt us until we have somehow embraced or understood them. Here, Noble considers the ways she has been hauntedâby a near-death experience, the gaze of a nude model, thoughts of widowhood, Anne Boleyn's violent death, a book she can't stop reading, a past lover who shadows her thoughtsâin essays both pleasant and bitter, traditional and lyrical, and persistently evocative and unforgettable.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- I. Whatever Bed
- The Split
- Mirror Glimpses
- Elegy for Dracula
- Ambush
- II. Shadows and Markings
- The Shadow of the Hours
- Leaving the Island
- Behind the Caves
- Marked
- III. Biologies
- The Heart as a Torn Muscle
- A Pill to Cure Love
- What of the Raven, What of the Dove?
- Assemblage
- Vertebrae
- IV. The Voice at the Window
- Yet Another Day at the Jersey Shore
- The Sparkling Future
- Widow Fantasies
- Striking
- V. On Looking
- The Ownership of Memory
- The Island of Topaz
- Shells
- Camouflet
- VI. The Red Thread
- Knots
- 69 Inches of Thread, Scarlet and Otherwise
- On Silence
- Devotional
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
- About Randon Billings Noble