A non-bibliography: some words I thought about while writing this piece.

Kenneth Slessor, The Night Ride, in The World’s Contracted Thus, Heinemann Publishers Australia, Richmond, 1982, p 265 (“Gaslight and milk-cans. Of Rapptown I recall nothing else.”)

Blade Runner, film, 1982, Rutger Hauer’s final speech (“All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.”)

Elizabeth Jolley, source unknown (from my notebooks, 1991) “I did not believe my father when he said, years ago, that two thirds of your life has to be spent doing things you do not especially want to do. I now think he was right, but it is not so bad.”)

Michael Kinsley, “Mine is longer than yours” in the New Yorker, 7/4/2008, accessed at:
http://www.newyorker.com:80/reporting/2008/04/07/080407fa_fact_kinsley , 8/6/2008(“But when it comes to the ultimate boomer game, competitive longevity, I’m doing color commentary. This is not because I’m more likely to keel over early but because having a chronic disease—or, more to the point, being known to have a chronic disease—automatically starts you on your expulsion from the club of the living.”)

William Wordsworth, My Heart Leaps Up, (“The Child is father of the Man.”), accessed at: http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww194.html, 8/6/2008

Lewis Carroll, Alice In Wonderland, Caxton Publishing, London, 1965. (“The horror of that moment,” the King went on, ‘I shall never, never forget!’
‘You will, though,’ the Queen said, ‘If you don’t make a memorandum of it.’”) (p. 143)

Sean “Diddy” Combs, video blog accessed at http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/sashafrerejones/2008/05/index.html, 8/6/2008 (“I’m in love with hip-hop again.”)