Notes

In “Pathology of the Senses” are lines that include adapted
definitions from The Penguin Dictionary of Biology (10th
Ed. M. Thain and M. Hickman, ed. London: Penguin, 2000).

Lines from the fourth factory in “Four Factories” are quotes and
paraphrases from Lakeside Packers recruitment literature and
websites.

The italicized line in “Air Show” was the theme of the 2008
Canadian National Exhibition Air Show.

The Ludwig Wittgenstein quote in “Archive” is from Remarks on
Colour
(ed. G.E.M. Anscombe. Linda L. McAlister and Margarete
Schattle, trans. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California
Press, 1977).

Some lines in “Prayers for the Sick” are adapted from the Catholic
Prayers for the Sick.

The epigraph for “Jesus Heals the Leopard” is from William
Cowper’s The Task: A Poem in Six Books (Philadelphia: Bennett and
Walton, 1811).

In “Norway,” the Knut Hamsun quote is from the opening lines of
Hunger (Sigrid Undset, trans. Sverre Lyngstad, ed. New York:
Penguin, 1998). The Eivind Groven tribute was delivered by Arne
Nordheim on the occasion of Groven’s 60th birthday in 1961.
Also italicized are Norwegian proverbs, and a quote attributed to
Vilhelm Bjerknes on the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
website ( January, 2009. Created by John J. O’Connor and Edmund
F. Robertson ).

In “Postscript,” the italicized lines are from Gauss’s letters as
quoted in Jane Muir’s Of Men and Numbers (New York: Dodd, Mead
& Co., 1961).