Georgia O'Keeffe paintings
Gustave Clarence Rodolphe Boulanger paintings
The quotations from the Quran in this book are composites of the English Versions of N. J. Dawood in the Penguin edition and of Maulana Muhammad Ali (Lahore, 1973), with a few touches of my own; that from Faiz Ahmad Faiz is a variant of the translation by Mahmood Jamal in the _Penguin Book of Modern Urdu Poetry_. For the description of the Manticore, I'm indebted to Jorge Luis Borges's _Book of Imaginary Beings_, while the material on Argentina derives, in part, from the writings of W. H. Hudson, especially _Far Away and
Guillaume Seignac paintings
thank Pauline Melville for untangling my plaits from my dreadlocks; and to confess that the "Gagari" poems of "Bhupen Gandhi" are, in fact, echoes of Arun Kolatkar's collection _Jejuri_. The verses from "Living Doll" are by Lionel Bart (1959 Peter Maurice Music Co. Ltd., all rights for the U.S. and Canada administered by Colgems-those by Kenneth Tynan in the novel's final section have been taken from _Tynan Right and Left_ (copyright Kenneth Tynan, 1967).
The identities of many of the authors from whom I've learned will, I hope, be clear from the text; others must remain anonymous, but I thank them, too.
Monday, November 10, 2008
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