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Notes

The letters are a compilation of verbatim quotations from the books listed below. Each letter reflects which book has influenced my thinking at a particular time.

The quotations are in the form and sequence they appeared in the book, though in a few cases the punctuation was changed.
*1 - From "Independent People" by Halldor Laxness, translated by J. A. Thompson, Vintage International, 1997

*2 - From "Hunger" by Lucie Brock-Broido. Alfred A. Knopf, 1995

*3 - From "Back Roads to Far Towns" by Basho, translated by Cid Corman and Kamaike Susumu, The Ecco Press, 1994

*4 - From "Poems of Paul Celan," translated by Michael Hamburger, Persea Books, 1989

*5 - From "The Cloven Viscount," by Italo Calvino, translated by Archibald Colquhoun, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977

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