Index to the Topical Guide
A Topical Guide to the Complete Peter Leroy (so far)
by Mark Dorset
It is comforting, when one feels a bit “lost,” to be able to put one’s feet up, close one’s eyes, and look back, as it were, along the road that one followed from wherever one once was to wherever one may be now, to “retrace one’s steps,” and find, along that roadside, familiar milestones. It is certainly comforting for me; for if I am feeling a bit “lost,” when I begin such a backward ramble, I am often lost during it as well, wandering on someone else's road, or backing out of a cul-de-sac, and it is always a great relief to come upon one of these milestones, or, if you prefer, landmarks. 
     Peter Leroy, “My Mother Takes a Tumble” 

have in mind two sorts of cross reference — one concerned with words and the other with things. . . . 
     Denis Diderot, Encyclopedia

This is a listing of entries in my topical guide to who’s who and what’s what in the Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy (so far) — MD 
A-D
E-L
M-R
S-Z
Appearances
Art
Author as Other, the
Babbington
Barber, Matthew
Beaker, Dudley
Beath, Bertram W.
Beauty
Black Jacques and Fat Hank
Boats, Rowboats, Sinking Boats
Books and Reading
Boundaries and Edges
Calder, Burton
Chacallit, New York
Clam Chowder
Clam, Happy as a
Coincidence
Comedy
Cross-Reference
Details
Digression
Disguises
Dorset Diagram
Dorset, Mark
Dust
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Facts
Folly
Foote, Eliza
Fried Foods
Hope
Human Nature
Humor in Life and Art
Imagination, Products of the
Intention
Irony
Kitsch
Kraft, Eric
Leroy, Ella Piper
Leroy, Peter
Life, Everyday
Little Things of Life, the
Lodkochnikov, Ariane
Lodkochnikov, Rodney
Memory
Memory, Faulty
Minutiae of Everyday Life
Peters, Larry
Proust, Marcel
Reader, the
Reality
Revision
Sarcasm
Sentiment
Shandy
Small’s Island
Soul, the
Thinking Backwards
Time
Wishful Thinking
Work
World, Another
Writing
Zizyph

Amazon Honor SystemClick Here to PayLearn More

I should like to see the custom introduced of readers who are pleased with a book sending the author some small cash token: anything between half-a-crown and a hundred pounds.  Authors would then receive what their publishers give them as a flat rate and their “tips” from grateful readers in addition, in the same way that waiters receive a wage from their employers and also get what the customer leaves on the plate.  Not more than a few hundred pounds—that would be bad for my character—not less than half-a-crown—that would do no good to yours.

Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise

Copyright © 1996, 2003 by Eric Kraft

A Topical Guide to the Complete Peter Leroy (so far) is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, dialogues, settings, and businesses portrayed in it are products of the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. 

All rights reserved. No part of this guide may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the author

Portions of A Topical Guide to the Complete Peter Leroy (so far) were first published by Voyager, Inc., as part of The Complete Peter Leroy (so far).


ABOUT THE PERSONAL HISTORY
COMPONENTS OF THE WORK
REVIEWS OF THE ENTIRE WORK
AUTHOR’S STATEMENT

COMPLETE SITE CONTENTS

LITTLE FOLLIES
HERB ’N’ LORNA
RESERVATIONS RECOMMENDED
WHERE DO YOU STOP?
WHAT A PIECE OF WORK I AM
AT HOME WITH THE GLYNNS
LEAVING SMALL’S HOTEL
INFLATING A DOG
PASSIONATE SPECTATOR
MAKING MY SELF
A TOPICAL GUIDE

ADVERTISEMENTS