Samuel Johnson Is Indignant (14 page)
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Authors: Lydia Davis
They have moved into separate bedrooms now.
That night she dreams she is holding him in her arms. He dreams he is having dinner with Ben Jonson.
I don't want any more gifts, cards, phone calls, prizes, clothes, friends, letters, books, souvenirs, pets, magazines, land, machines, houses, entertainments, honors, good news, dinners, jewels, vacations, flowers, or telegrams. I just want money.
Novel
The End of the Story
(1995)
Stories
The Thirteenth Woman and Other Stories
(1976)
Sketches for a Life of Wassilly
(1981)
Story and Other Stories
(1983)
Break It Down
(1986)
Almost No Memory
(1997)
Selected Translations
Death Sentence by Maurice Blanchot
(1978)
The Madness of the Day by Maurice Blanchot
(1981)
The Last Man by Maurice Blanchot
(1987)
Scratches by Michel Leiris
(1991)
Hélène by Pierre Jean Jouve
(1993)
Scraps by Michel Leiris
(1997)
By Way of Swann's by Marcel Proust
(2002)
I have only to add
that the plates in the present volume
have been carefully re-etched
by Mr. Cuff.
SAMUEL JOHNSON IS INDIGNANT
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Davis, Lydia.
Samuel Johnson is indignant: stories / Lydia Davis.â1st Picador ed.
p. cm.
ISBN: 978-1-4668-0101-1
1. United StatesâSocial life and customsâ20th centuryâFiction. I. Title.
PS3554.A9356 S36 Â Â 2002
813'.54âdc21
2002066775
First published by McSweeney's Books, New York