Apparently a lot of the lyrics for Pink Floyd's album, "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun", were taken from A.G. Graham's Poems of the Late T'ang. (I'm always the last to find out these things.)

from STAR GROPE (1986): "Take day.-.. Left rim receive bleed: planet to have sea to ice-.. Crave star cold. They. High come never evil/. Sleepwalker day; profound crave carbonaceous I. Pungent profound of purlieu acid to did he it. Emerald rim come grow cold? Night not lungfish. Sleepwalker cold. Folk for age under bleed; to cold. Ice: grope come find did them carbonaceous it; crystal receive crave carbonaceous they??./ Puree terrible find did them terrible did avalanche rain night raucous cat never lungfish." --When done right, this sort of text lurks just beyond the range of sense, a ghostly sort of meaning. I invoke Bohm's "Theory of Implicate Order" for the combination of all these words, more in connotation than denotation, into one atmospheric quasi-story. Single-word parataxis, or "word salad" as the whitecoats refer to it, allows the stickiness of adjacent units in English to almost-work grammatically; herding not cats, but cat-ness.

A Nobel Peace Prize winner writes a letter to Dubya.