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Authors: Joan Schenkar
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“The Still Point of the Turning World”: Mrs. Robinson lives in the London Terrace Apartments on West Twenty-third Street. Philip and Dickie have their encounter in the little park on the West Side Highway.
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“Notes from a Respectable Cockroach”: The Hotel Earle (Pat calls it the Hotel Duke) inspired this cockroach story.
Charts, Maps, Diagrams, And Plans
1. “Golden Arrow” Diagram. Drawn by Pat Highsmith to help plot a comic book script.
2. Lover Chart. This is the chart Pat Highsmith created in 1945 to rank and compare her lovers. The initials of the women have been removed to protect their privacy.
3. Map to Highsmith Haus in Tegna, made by Pat Highsmith for Monique Buffet.
4. Natal Chart of Patricia Highsmith by Alex Szogyi.
5. Diagram for
The Price of Salt,
called here
Argument of Tantalus
(or The Lie).
6. Plan of Willie Mae's boardinghouse in Fort Worth, drawn by Dan Oscar Coates.
All books are dated according to the edition used, not the date of first publication.
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