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The Complete Ourang-Outang.

"reaching inside
my toll-painted mailbox
the dark and cold
rain drips through a crack
onto an empty hand"

--an'ya

On Writing the Aleutian trilogy.

"...when they did a symphony of Beethoven...it would take four 78 records, but there would be one side that would be empty, but the company didn't want to put an empty side, so they would put on maybe a Rossini overture...and for years I thought the Fifth Symphony of Beethoven ended up with The William Tell Overture." --Philip Glass, qtd in: Your Song Changed My Life

Oppenheimer's 1963 list of 10 favorite books.