One character in this novel gives free shelter to destitute Okies but lectures them on being responsible for their own poverty, while another character hangs a Vermeer painting in his elevator. After a doctor in this novel sedates a man in order to seduce his mistress, Peter Boone is wrongly blamed for the affair and is shot by the owner of a mountaintop castle. A grotesque man wearing the Order of the Garter is found hiding out in a basement in this novel; that character had advocated eating raw carp in the eighteenth century as the Earl of Gonister. The protagonist is an archivist working with the Hauberk papers on behalf of a Hollywood millionaire who loves Virginia Maunciple, Jo Stoyte. For 10 points, what is this novel, named after a line that precedes "Me only cruel immortality consumes" in Tennyson's "Tithonus," which follows Jeremy Pordage's discovery of 
One character in this novel gives free shelter to destitute Okies but lectures them on being responsible for their own poverty, while another character hangs a Vermeer painting in his elevator. After a doctor in this novel sedates a man in order to seduce his mistress, Peter Boone is wrongly blamed for the affair and is shot by the owner of a mountaintop castle. A grotesque man wearing the Order of the Garter is found hiding out in a basement in this novel; that character had advocated eating raw carp in the eighteenth century as the Earl of Gonister. The protagonist is an archivist working with the Hauberk papers on behalf of a Hollywood millionaire who loves Virginia Maunciple, Jo Stoyte. For 10 points, what is this novel, named after a line that precedes "Me only cruel immortality consumes" in Tennyson's "Tithonus," which follows Jeremy Pordage's discovery of the secret of eternal life and was written by Aldous Huxley?
One character in this novel gives free shelter to destitute Okies but lectures them on being responsible for their own poverty, while another character hangs a Vermeer painting in his elevator.