Elixir
WRITING AS GARY GOSHGARIAN
Atlantis Fire
Rough Breast
The Stone Circle
This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this novel are either fictitious or are used fictitiously.
GRAY MATTER
Copyright © 2002 by Gary Goshgarian
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Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint the following material:
Excerpts from “The Snow Man” and “The Emperor of Ice-Cream” from
The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
by Wallace Stevens, copyright 1954 by Wallace Stevens and renewed 1982 by Holly Stevens. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc.
Excerpt from “The Hollow Men” in
Collected Poems 1909-1962
by T.S. Eliot. Copyright © 1936 by Harcourt, Inc., copyright © 1964, 1963 by T.S. Eliot, reprinted by permission of the publisher.
On page 305, lyric excerpt from “There Is Nothin” Like A Dame” by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. Copyright © 1949 by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. Copyright Renewed. WILLIAMSON MUSIC owner of publication and allied rights throughout the world. International Copyright Secured. Reprinted by Permission. All Rights Reserved.
First Edition: September 2002