Be with Me Always
eBook - ePub

Be with Me Always

Essays

  1. 174 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Be with Me Always

Essays

About this book

"Be with me always—take any form—drive 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 haunted—he 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 haunted—by 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 thoughts—in essays both pleasant and bitter, traditional and lyrical, and persistently evocative and unforgettable.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Epigraph
  5. Contents
  6. I. Whatever Bed
  7. The Split
  8. Mirror Glimpses
  9. Elegy for Dracula
  10. Ambush
  11. II. Shadows and Markings
  12. The Shadow of the Hours
  13. Leaving the Island
  14. Behind the Caves
  15. Marked
  16. III. Biologies
  17. The Heart as a Torn Muscle
  18. A Pill to Cure Love
  19. What of the Raven, What of the Dove?
  20. Assemblage
  21. Vertebrae
  22. IV. The Voice at the Window
  23. Yet Another Day at the Jersey Shore
  24. The Sparkling Future
  25. Widow Fantasies
  26. Striking
  27. V. On Looking
  28. The Ownership of Memory
  29. The Island of Topaz
  30. Shells
  31. Camouflet
  32. VI. The Red Thread
  33. Knots
  34. 69 Inches of Thread, Scarlet and Otherwise
  35. On Silence
  36. Devotional
  37. Acknowledgments
  38. Bibliography
  39. About Randon Billings Noble