Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea (originally published in 1938)

Georges Bataille, Erotism: Death and Sensuality

— Sally Wen Mao, from “Drop-kick Aria,” Mad Honey Symposium

[Text ID: “and in my arteries a streak of madness”]

Anne Sexton, 45 Mercy Street; from 'The Break Away'

— Laure, trans. by Jeanine Herman, from The Collected Writings: “Correspondence”

Emily Berry, from Ghosts (Homage to Burial).

— Vita Sackville-West, from “Solitude,” published c. January 1938

— Mary Shelley, from “Mathilda,” originally published c. October 1812

Anne Hébert, Kamouraska, tr. Norman Shapiro

Iris Murdoch, A Severed Head

Anaïs Nin, in a diary entry dated 26 April 1931, from The Early Diary of Anais Nin: 1927-1931