Imaginary Portraits on Manon Lescaut: “they have begun to talk of these things in Paris, to amuse themselves with the spectacle of them, set forth here, in the story of poor Manon Lescaut”
The Octopus on Marius the Epicurean: “Marius the Epicurean," "The Essays of Elia," "Sesame and Lilies," "The Stones of Venice," and the little toy magazines, full of the flaccid banalities of the "Minor Poets," were continually in her hands.”
Notes on Camp on Marius the Epicurean: “(Models: Des Esseintes in Huysmans' À Rebours, Marius the Epicurean, Valéry's Monsieur Teste.)”
Of Human Bondage on Marius the Epicurean: “Don't you remember the chapter in Marius where Pater talks of the gentle exercise of walking as the best incentive to conversation?”