1. “The notion of Henry James entering into a homosexual, or indeed a heterosexual, relationship with another human being is, not to put too fine a point on it, unthinkable. Henry James, happily bonking away, would not be Henry James”—Joseph Epstein, “The Author as Character, The Weekly Standard, August 9 2004.
2. “Honey, you are the star that makes my Little Dipper Big”—some guy at a hotel bar in Reno, NV.
Talk about your turn of the screw.
Madame Merle will make no remarks about Caspar Goodwood.