Quotation Sources

Sources for the quotations in the stories are as follows:

1. p. 16: Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows (Modern Library, New York, 2005), pp. 4 and 35.
2. p. 33: Dr Seuss, The Cat in the Hat (Random House, New York, 1985), p. 18.
3. p. 87: William Shakespeare, Henry V, Act 3, Scene 1.
4. p. 94: Isaiah Berlin, The Hedgehog and the Fox (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1967), p. 1.
5. p. 101: Quotations adapted from Thomas Nagel, ‘What is it like to be a bat?’ The Philosophical Review, Vol. 83, No. 4 (Oct., 1974), pp. 435–450 at pp. 438–9, 441. Used with the permission of Thomas Nagel.
6. pp. 150, 157: Various lines from the untitled Anton Chekhov play known as Platonov, written in 1878 and first published in 1923, as translated by David Hare in Young Chekhov: Platonov; Ivanov; The Seagull (Faber & Faber Ltd, Bloomsbury, 2015).
7. p. 158: Thomas Mann, in the essay, ‘Versuch ueber Tschechow’, originally published in Sinn und Form in 1954, as quoted in The Undiscovered Chekhov: Thirty-Eight New Stories, trans. Peter Constantine (Seven Stories Press, New York, 1998), p. xvii.
8. p. 160: Percy Bysshe Shelley, ‘Music, when soft voices die’, in Mary Shelley (ed), Posthumous Poems (John and Henry L. Hunt, London, 1824), p. 214.
9. p. 178: William S. Burroughs, The Naked Lunch (John Calder, London, 1982), p. 3.
10. p. 183: Allen Ginsberg, ‘Howl’, in Howl and Other Poems (City Lights Books, San Francisco, 1956), p. 9.
11. p. 186: Joke attributed to Dorothy Parker in Paul Hammond and Patrick Hughes, Upon the Pun: Dual Meaning in Words and Pictures (W. H. Allen, London, 1978), p. 4.
12. p. 285: This extract is reproduced from Joëlle Gergis, Sunburnt Country: The History and Future of Climate Change in Australia (Melbourne University Press, Carlton, 2018), p. 102.

Born in Wollongong, Jo Lennan studied in Sydney and Oxford. She has worked as a lawyer and writer, contributing to The Economist, 1843, Time Magazine and The Monthly. Her work has featured in the Best Australian Stories and Best Australian Essays anthologies.

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