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The epigraph is from Bob Dylan’s song, “Ballad of a Thin Man.” Copyright © 1965 by Warner Bros. Inc.; renewed 1993 by Special Rider Music. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
Pages 13 and 97: the references are to John Hersey’s Hiroshima.
Page 35: Leonard is quoting from Walter Benjamin’s essay, “The Storyteller: Reflections on the Work of Nikolai Leskov.” Illuminations. Translated by Harry Zohn. Copyright © 1955 by Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt A.M. English translation copyright © 1968 and renewed 1996 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
Page 42: Leonard is quoting from Friedrich Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra: the “Midnight Song,” or “The Intoxicated Song.”
Pages 36 and 46: Karl Marx’s famous aphorism is from The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte. (1852) New York: International Publishers, 1963. Marx wrote: “Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.” And, “Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.”
Page 42: Rachel quotes (vaguely) from Marx, The German Ideology.
The song on page 66 is “The Preacher and the Slave” by Joe Hill, 1911.
On page 89, Suzanne quotes a line from the film Double Indemnity, directed by Billy Wilder (with a screenplay by Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler), 1944.
Pages 106 and 388: In his essay called “The Perversion of Human Needs” Karl Marx wrote:
Alienation is apparent not only in the fact that my means of life belong to someone else, that my desires are the unattainable possession of someone else, but that everything is something different from itself, that my activity is something else, and finally (and this is also the case for the capitalist) that an inhuman power rules over everything. There is a kind of wealth which is inactive, prodigal and devoted to pleasure, the beneficiary of which behaves as an ephemeral, aimlessly active individual who regards the slave labor of others, human blood and sweat, as the prey of his cupidity and sees mankind, and himself, as a sacrificial and superfluous being. Thus he acquires a contempt for mankind, expressed in the form of arrogance and the squandering of resources which would support a hundred human lives, and also in the form of the infamous illusion that his unbridled extravagance and endless unproductive consumption is a condition for the labor and subsistence of others. He regards the realization of the essential powers of man only as the realization of his own disorderly life, his whims and his capricious bizarre ideas.
(Written in1844. Weird emphasis his.)
Published in Marx’s Concept of Man. Copyright © Erich Fromm and TB Bottomore (trans.), 1972, Frederick Ungar Publishing Co. by permission of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.
Pages 126-127: MacArthur’s admiration of Napoleon, Genghis Khan, Abraham Lincoln and George Washington, and expressions of fear of “communistic slavery” are variations of William Manchester’s quotations of MacArthur in his biography, American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur, 1880-1964.