anchovies: 9, 168 (w/spaghetti, green onions and garlic)
Arthur Rackham: 62
bathroom of Café ’Ino: 45, 74, 80
Bedford Street: 5, 7, 75, 204, 205
bee socks: 77, 115, 169
brown bread: 7, 9, 31, 45, 48 (toast), 152, 168, 204
cat toys: 28 (“catnip-enhanced mice toys”), 155
cats (her own or others’): 5, 28, 64, 74, 95, 99, 146, 147, 154, 202, 203, 251
coat: 5, 31, 38, 56, 62, 66, 80, 140, 155, 160, 161, 164, 170, 242, 243, 253
codfish stew: 111
coffee: 7, 8, 10, 14, 15, 20, 24, 25, 28, 31, 45, 48, 64, 66, 71, 77, 80, 85, 86, 94, 98 (out-of-order machine), 99, 108, 110, 111, 112 (“I could drink fourteen cups without compromising my sleep.”), 113, 114, 119, 127, 130, 132, 134, 135, 136, 145, 150, 151, 152, 155, 164, 173, 176, 180, 191, 192, 195, 202, 204, 211, 217, 225, 231, 234
cold buckwheat noodles with yam: 94
cold water on face: 5
composition book: 215
crumb cake: 110
Davy Crockett: 81, 82, 142
Edmund Fitzgerald, the: 234
fish bone in throat: 112
Fred Sonic Smith: 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 (pale blue eyes), 21, 23, 24, 32, 37, 71, 78, 85, 86, 87, 92, 129, 130, 131, 132, 148, 149, 156, 170, 171, 175, 177, 181, 183, 204 (crooked smile), 221, 225, 227, 231, 232, 234, 235, 241, 242, 243, 244, 245, 248 (his fingers)
Fred’s shirts: 15, 79, 208
hands, seeing your own in a dream: 81, 116, 253
hot washcloth: 79
“jewels and gears of a common mind”: 87
Jiminy Cricket: 75
journal: 63, 110, 178
Kill Devil Hills: 86
malaise: 25, 28, 91, 208
marinated beans: 151
migraine: 120, 148
milk: 121 (“The air was perfect, like milk.”)
milky corpuscles: 179
milky light: 36, 148
Moleskin: 115, 195
napkins: 27, 45, 48, 50, 53, 78, 112, 139, 211, 212, 213, 115, 175, 200, 202, 203, 208
Nescafé: 30, 86, 224, 225, 226
notebook: 2, 27, 51, 80, 83, 109, 111, 113, 115, 160, 175, 200, 202, 203, 208
olive oil: 7, 9, 31, 45, 152, 168, 204
peanut butter: 147, 165 (sandwich)
red miso soup: 165
Sarah Linden: 32 (“Yesterday’s poets are today’s detectives.”), 46, 127, 142, 238, 239, 240
sardines: 99, 147
shrimp balls and steamed cabbage dumplings wrapped in leaves in a bamboo basket: 177
Sixth Avenue: 31, 38, 109, 141, 160, 206
spaghetti: 136, 147, 168 (w/anchovies, green onions and garlic)
station: 1, 54, 55, 132, 142 (W. 4th St. station), 146 (same), 183, 189, 190, 198
steaming abalone, green-tea soba noodles, and warm tea: 192
train: 4, 123 (M train), 128 (A train), 132, 135, 145 (A train), 190, 191, 192, 198, 231
watch cap: 5, 7, 31, 38, 90, 109, 115, 117, 141, 155, 160, 177
“What a Wonderful World”: 78, 235
white bean soup: 64
writing about nothing: 3, 7, 63, 64
References are to first hardcover edition, 2015.
