Listed below are sources of quotations in the book; and factual information.

The Apocalyptus Tree is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination, or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

QUOTATIONS

“…While the imagination strains
after deer…”
(William Carlos Williams poem, “To Elsie”, 1923).

“As a dancer in this culture, you’re dispossessed, disenfranchised, disempowered…. Because your body is your tool, people feel they have permission to talk about it.”
(Amii Legendre, Seattle choreographer, interviewed in The Stranger (Seattle), March 23-29, 2000).

“Verde que te quiero verde!”
(Lorca poem, “Somnambule Ballad”, 1924-27).

“The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.”
(Euripides, fragment from Phrixus, year unknown).

“I was desolate and sick of an old passion,
When I awoke and found the dawn was grey…”.
(Ernest Dowson poem, “Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae”, 1896).

“The body, spirit and soul…appear in three colors…the body, or earth in Saturnine blackness; the spirit in lunar whiteness, like water, and the soul, or air, in solar yellow.”
(Michael Maier, Scrutinum Chymicum, 1617; abridgement of his Atalanta Fugiens of 1617; published posthumously in 1687).

“Two souls, alas, are dwelling in my breast…”.
(Goethe, Faust, Part 1, 1808; Walter Kaufmann translation of:
“Zwei Seelen wohnen, ach, in meiner Brust…”.)

“The fearsome, word-and-thought-defying banality of evil.”
(Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem, 1963).

“If someone speaks better than Stalin, that man is doomed!”
(Nikolai Bukharin; as quoted by Alan Bullock, Hitler and Stalin, 1993).

“I have been a stranger in a strange land.”
(Exodus 2:22; 6th to 5th century BCE).

“The intellect of man is forced to choose
Perfection of the life, or of the work…”.
(Yeats poem, “The Choice”, 1933).

“I he be Mr. Hyde…I shall be Mr. Seek.”
(Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Kr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 1886).

“The world
…where to want
Is straightaway to be wanted, seek to find,
And no one gets upset or seems to mind.”
(Philip Larkin poem, “Letter to a Friend About Girls”, 1959).

“The acorn can become an oak, and not a donkey.”
(Carl Jung, filmed interview, 1957).

“Where is the wisdom of our old people, where are their precious secrets and their visions?”
(Carl Jung, “Stages of Life”, 1930).

“There was actually a moment where I had set my paddle down and leaned back in my kayak and was thinking to myself…’What a lucky, fortunate life I was able to live’…. And it was right after that…that a large woodpecker flew into the channel.”
(Gene Sparling, Seattle Town Hall, November 9, 2005; talking about spotting an Ivory-Billed Woodpecker on February 11, 2004 in the Cache River National Wildlife Refuge in eastern Arkansas).

“Even in the most brutish man, there is always some animal instinct whose very persistence is akin to thought.”
(Balzac, The Black Sheep, 1842).

“By the sea, you’ve got everything. You’ve got earth, air and water. And if you smoke a cigarette, you’ve got fire as well.”
(Phil Lynott, lead singer for Thin Lizzie; from interview).

“Les extremites se touchent.”
(Pascal, Pensees, 1662).

“I found all of them intoxicated – I found none of them thirsty.”
(Gospel of Thomas 28, 340 AD).

“A God without wrath, brought men without sin, into a kingdom without judgment, through the ministrations of a Christ without a cross.”
(Richard Niebuhr, The Kingdom of God in America, 1937).

“None but the unhappy people ever hear such praise.”
(Cassandra character in Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 458 BC).

“I experience my great poverty before the Mystery perceived in the religious experience.”
(Monica Grygiel, M.D., quoted in article by Lorenzo Albacete, “A very fine line”, New York Times magazine, December 17, 2000).

“I don’t want my demons taken away, because they’re going to take my angels too.”
or:
“I’m afraid if my demons leave me, my angels will take flight as well.”
(Translations of Rilke letter, 1907).

“…Whichever way they lurched was the way.”
(Galway Kinnell, The Book of Nightmares, 1973).

“The Jesus of the Gospels’…miracles were not acts of charity but eschatological signs.”
(Garry Wills, “Christ Among the Partisans”, New York Times, April 9, 2006).

“Give, and it shall be given unto you.”
(Luke 6:38)

“Plainly the urban world knew nothing about the country world, the real world of mountains, woods, and rivers, and animals and ‘God’s thoughts’ (plants and crystals).”
(Carl Jung, Memories Dreams Reflections, 1961).

“Why do I wear…this staff of prophecy, these flowers at my throat?”
(Cassandra character in Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 458 BC).

“Sein und Zeit”.
(Title of Martin Heidegger book (Being and Time), 1927).

“Before a moult, the snake’s…skin becomes dull and dry-looking, and the eyes become cloudy or blue-colored.”
(Wikipedia).

“Native Americans made some tangibly maps, but they were often ephemeral in form.”
(Illinois State Museum website).

“The zone of leveled forest (from the Tungaska event) resembled a gigantic spread-eagled butterfly, with a ‘wingspan’ of 70 kilometers and a ‘body length’ of 55 kilometers.”
(Wikipedia).

“For now we see through a glass, darkly, but then face to face…”.
(I Corinthians 13:12)

“Under extreme conditions of gravitational collapse, a critical stage is reached whereby no communication with the outside world is possible…a ‘collapse-event’”.
(George Steiner, In Bluebeard’s Castle, 1971).

“Lick ‘em tomorrow, though.”
(General Ulysses S. Grant, sitting under a tree in the pouring rain, smoking a cigar, his back to the Tennessee River – to General Sherman, after the first bloody day at Shiloh, evening of April 6, 1862).

“Ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky and of the earth; but how is it that ye do not discern this time?”
(Luke 12:56; “time” is translation of “kairos”; emphasis added).

“The self is a circle whose center is everywhere, and whose circumference is nowhere.”
(Carl Jung interview, 1959).

“Just what is this center that I don’t know what it really is; can it be the coordinates of some unity?”
(Julio Cortazar, Hopscotch, 1963).

“John was clothed with camel’s hair…and he did eat locusts and wild honey.”
(Mark 1:6)

“Getting lost in the chaos…is the sine qua non of any regeneration of the spirit and the personality.”
(Carl Jung, Memories Dreams Reflections, 1961).

“The entire sky was in turmoil. It was blood-red, green, sulphur-gray, black as night, a jagged yellow. Everyone was looking, horrified.”
(Nazi adjutant, eyewitness on terrace at Berchtesgaden, August 23, 1939; from The Nazis DVD).

“On the fire I look’d: and busy fancy conjured up the forms erewhile beheld alive consumed in flames…”.
(Dante, Purgatorio, Canto 27, early 14th century).

“In military operations, time is everything.”
(Duke of Wellington, 1800; from John Keegan, The First World War, 1998).

“For what shall it profit a man, if shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?”
(Mark 8:36)

“Working through – ducharbeit – is essentially an education in the process of assuming a tragic relationship to oneself.”
(Walter A. Davis, “The Psychology of Christian Fundamentalism”, counterpunch.org, January 8-9, 2005).

“The airy splendor of the place and Bridge of Sighs, the columns of lion and saint on the shore…”.
(Thomas Mann, Death in Venice, 1912).

“All my changes were there.”
(Neil Young song, “Helpless”, 1969).

“Oh for the nightingale’s pure song and a fate like hers….
Mine is the sheer edge of the tearing iron…”.
(Cassandra character in Aeschylus, Agamnenon, 458 BC).

“If I ever go looking for my heart’s desire again, I won’t look any further than my own backyard.”
(Dorothy character from The Wizard of Oz film script; Noel Langley and 17 others credited, 1939; based on book by L. Frank Baum, 1900).

“Life as a commentary of something else we cannot reach, which is there within reach of the leap we will not take.”
(Julio Cortazar, Hopscotch, 1963).

FACTUAL INFORMATION SOURCES

Ariadne and Theseus myth:
Library.thinkquest.org; Encyclopedia Mythica; Wikipedia.

Drugs and depression:
Marilynn Marchione, “Correct mix of drugs may treat depression”, Associated Press, November 1, 2006.
Andrew Bridges, “Drugs raise risk of suicide in young”, Associated Press, December 6, 2006.

Dopamine:
Sandra Blakeslee, “Hijacking the brain circuits with a nickel slot machine”, New York Times, February 19, 2002.

Rejuvenation of Owens River:
“California river to get a new life”, Los Angeles Times, December 1, 2006.
“Healing a river? Just add water”, Los Angeles Times, August 3, 2007.
“A long-dry California river gets, and gives, new life”, New York Times, January 12, 2008.

Washington State ecozones:
Wikimedia.org; depts.washington.edu; Washington Native Plant Society (wnps.org).

Duwamish waterway:
Robert McClure, “Many question if Seattle’s Duwamish waterway can ever be restored”, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, November 25, 2007.

Vincent van Gogh and antidepressants:
Lorenzo Albacete, “A Very Fine Line”, New York Times magazine, December 17, 2000.

Prosperity Gospel:
“Does God want you to be rich?”, CNN.com, September 10, 2006.
Rachel Zoll, “Con artists hit faithful for billions”, Associated Press, August 14, 2006.
Marcy Gordon, “Regulators warning about investment schemes playing on religious loyalties”, Associated Press, August 7, 2001.

Ivory-Billed Woodpecker:
James Gorman, “Ivory Bill report is called ‘faith-based ornithology’”, New York Times, January 24, 2006.

Montanism:
Wikipedia.

Asatru:
Kristen Gelineau, “Pagan religion gains inmate followers”, Associated Press, July 24, 2006.

Kairosis:
The term, “kairosis” was first used by Keith Russell in his Ph.D. thesis, “Kenosis, catharsis, kairosis”, University of Newcastle, Australia, 1990 (knol.google.com); and now has an entry in Wikipedia.

Battle of Kursk:
David M. Glantz and Jonathan Mallory House, When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler; University of Kansas Press, 1995.

Jack Kerouac on Desolation Peak:
Maureen O’Neill, “Desolation Summer”, Seattle Times, June 9, 1996.