Page 1. round as a sphere: H. Silberer, Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts. New York, 1971.
Page 2. Neolithic dead: David Lewis-Williams & David Pearce, Inside the Neolithic Mind. London, 2005.
Page 3. I thought hard: William Stafford, "Traveling Through the Dark."
Page 4. the heaven-descented bard: Ovid, Metamorphoses. Book Ten.
Page 5. necessary angel of earth: Wallace Stevens. From, "Angel Surrounded by Paysans."
Page 7. sings its capacity as desire: Gaston Bachelard, Water and Dreams. Dallas, 1983.
             Swanee. George Gershwin and Irving Caesar, 1919.
Page 10. the uncertainty of the work. Maurice Blanchot, The Gaze of Orpheus. Barrytown NY, 1995.
Page 11. Rationally shouldn't: James Hillman, "Notes on the Meaning of Kali Symbolism." Opus Archive, Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria CA.
               the other night: Maurice Blanchot.The Gaze of Orpheus. Barrytown NY, 1995.
Page 12. I go a-fishing in...In summer: Henry D. Thoreau.Walden. New York, 1910.
               the limit of what art can attain: Maurice Blanchot, The Gaze of Orpheus. Barrytown NY, 1995.
Page 13. Walden is dead...Ibid.           
Page 15. He, dancer in the abyss: René Char, "Bird Man And Dying Bison." Robert Baker translation.
Page 18. Human footprints found on the White Sands Missile Range in southern New Mexico have been dated back to around 23,000 years.
Page 19: the law: Stephen Mitchelmore: https://this-space.blogspot.com/2007/03/modernist-vs-genre-fiction-blanchot-and.html            .
Page 20. All his teaching: Ann Wroe, Orpheus: The Song of Life. New York: The Overlook Press, 2011.