Works cited etc.
Monday, January 1st, 2001December 15, 5:54 p.m.: "Everything I've written seems like straw" — St. Thomas Aquinas.
December 16, 5:31 a.m.: "That is why I am clumsy, for lack of love" — from the movie Wings of Desire. "To Carthage then I came …" — St. Augustine, Confessions (rather famously quoted in "The Wasteland"). "The world is ugly, the people are sad" — Wallace Stevens.
December 17, 9:10 p.m.: "Last Words" — cf. Sylvia Plath's poem "Last Words."
December 20, 3:49 p.m.: "I got more stories … " and "I got money like Charles Dickens" — Beastie Boys, "Shadrach".
December 21, 5:05 p.m.: "Boring, Sidney, boring" — from Sid and Nancy. "Waves and radiation" — Don Delillo, White Noise. 8:25 p.m.: "Yeah, I said. Yeah, yeah, yeah …" Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club.
December 23, 12:42 a.m.: "Oh well, what the hell" — Joseph Heller, Catch 22.
December 24, 12:05 a.m.: "I wash and wash and cannot come clean" — Macbeth.
December 27, 11:56 a.m.: "a drunkard is a dead man …" — Yeats, "A Drunkard's Praise of Sobriety."
Dec 28, 2:20 p.m.: "Auld Lang Syne" — because nobody remembers this, I'll point out that this is by the Scots poet Robert Burns.
Dec 30, 8:19 p.m.: "But desire still cries …" — Sir Phillip Sidney, Astrophil and Stella. I believe the actual line is, "But ah, Desire stille cries, 'Giue mee some foode.'"
Dec 31, 11:05 p.m.: "Come forth" — John ?:?. Jesus to Lazarus.
Jan 1, 1:50 a.m.: "Vous etes …" — this happened exactly as I described it, but later I discovered that Drew was paraphrasing Jean Cocteau.
