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"Be with me always-take any form-drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!" Thus does Heathcliff beg his dead Cathy in Wuthering Heights. He wants to be haunted-he insists on it. Randon Billings Noble does too. Instead of exorcising the ghosts of her past, she hopes for their cold hands to knock at the window and to linger. Be with Me Always is a collection of essays that explore hauntedness by considering how the ghosts of our pasts cling to us.
In a way, all good essays are about the things that haunt us until we have somehow embraced or understood them. Here, Noble considers the ways she has been haunted-by a near-death experience, the gaze of a nude model, thoughts of widowhood, Anne Boleyn's violent death, a book she can't stop reading, a past lover who shadows her thoughts-in essays both pleasant and bitter, traditional and lyrical, and persistently evocative and unforgettable.
Contents
I. Whatever Bed
The Split
Mirror Glimpses
Elegy for Dracula
Ambush
II. Shadows and Markings
The Shadow of the Hours
Leaving the Island
Behind the Caves
Marked
III. Biologies
The Heart as a Torn Muscle
A Pill to Cure Love
What of the Raven, What of the Dove?
Assemblage
Vertebrae
IV. The Voice at the Window
Yet Another Day at the Jersey Shore
The Sparkling Future
Widow Fantasies
Striking
V. On Looking
On Looking
The Ownership of Memory
The Island of Topaz
Shells
Camouflet
VI. The Red Thread
Knots
69 Inches of Thread, Scarlet and Otherwise
On Silence
Devotional
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
