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Almost Over: Separate Bedrooms

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.

Money

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.

Also by Lydia Davis

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)

Acknowledgment

I have only to add

that the plates in the present volume

have been carefully re-etched

by Mr. Cuff.

SAMUEL JOHNSON IS INDIGNANT
. Copyright © 1976, 1981, 1989, 1990, 1993, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 by Lydia Davis. All rights reserved. For information, address Picador, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Davis, Lydia.

Samuel Johnson is indignant: stories / Lydia Davis.—1st Picador ed.

p. cm.

ISBN: 978-1-4668-0101-1

1. United States—Social life and customs—20th century—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3554.A9356 S36    2002

813'.54—dc21

2002066775

First published by McSweeney's Books, New York

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