Index for the complete text of Morons Awake!
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*In an interview given after Omsetter's Luck had been in print for twenty years, [William] Gass was asked whether "what has usually been considered as the traditional audience for the novel, that is, middleclass women, specifically in the USA, middleclass housewives, has been replaced by the academic community of readers?" His response is worth repeating: "There are of course students and faculty people who read your work, but outside the academic community the majority of readers are still women, women who happen to be housewives and who, in one way or another, have been influenced by the university system." —From "Orchestrating Reception: The Hierarchy of Readers in Post-modern American Fiction" by John Unsworth, Centennial Review, 34:3 (Summer 1990)
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Prefatory Matters
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Editoress' Brief Introduction:
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 Part 8 Part 9 Part 10 Part 11 Part 12 Part 13 Part 14 Part 15 Part 16 Part 17
BOOK ONE: SHOWTIME!
Chapter 1 Part 1 Chapter 2 Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Chapter 3 Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Chapter 4 Part 1 Chapter 5 Part 1 Chapter 5 Part 2 Chapter 5 Part 3 Chapter 6 Part 1 Chapter 7 Part 1
BOOK TWO: OVERTURES
Chapter 1 Part 1 Part 2 Chapter 2 Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Chapter 3 Part 1 Part 2 Chapter 4 Part 1 Part 2 Chapter 5 Part 1 Chapter 6 Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Chapter 7 Part 1 Chapter 8 Part 1 Part 2 Chapter 9 Part 1
BOOK NINE: THE FAT LADY SINGETH!
Appendices:
A
Private Eye Report re Leo Bloom
B
Stanislaw Witkiewicz
C
Story of O/Morons Awake! comparisons
D
Jayne Playne's Sleeping Beauty story
E
Jayne Playne's outline for Brief Introduction
F
1959 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz
G
Mss packaging diagram
H
Inventory of items pilfered from Jayne Playne's office
I
Hitler's New World Order Map
J
Photos of Hitler's oratorical poses
K
Author's suggested dustjacket
L
Salman Rushdie letter to author
M
Maps of Moronia
N
Degas "After Bath" paintings
O
Erotic Foreplay Art
P
Jayne Mansfield pictures
Q Discussion of the American
sentence
R
Author's markup of JFK's "I Am A Moron" speech
S
Marie Bimbeaux-Klutz letter to author
T
Hypothetical letter to Vietnam War draft board
U
Vietnam vets congressional testimony
V
Emerson lecture
W
Account of author's return to Moronia
Y
Painting of Moronic urchins
Z
7 "Epiphanal" bars of Götterdämmerung
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