Her Name Was Lola

First published in Great Britain 2003
This electronic edition published in 2012 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

‘If You Go Away’ English words by Rod McKuen © 1975 Warner
Chappell Music S A France, Warner Overseas Holdings, London W6 8BS.
Reproduced by permission of International Music Publications Ltd.

Excerpts from Buddhist Wisdom Books are translated by Edward
Conze and reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers

Excerpt from My Antonia by Willa Cather (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1995)

The lines Max sings on page 19 are from ‘Copacabana’ by Barry Manilow
(BMG Music Publishing)

The lines Geoffrey sings on pages 186-187 are from ‘Lola’ by The Kinks
(Carlin Music Corps)

Excerpts from The I Ching are from the Richard Wilhelm translation,
translated into English by Cary F Baynes (Arkana, 1989) copyright © 1950
and 1967 by Bollingen Foundation Inc.

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