Eros: The Bittersweet, Anne Carson
The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky
The History of Sexuality, Part 1, Michel Foucault

"Everybody is making love
or else expecting rain."
--"Desolation Row," Bob Dylan

"Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment of loss."
--Joan Didion