The Deep Zoo

Notes

BOOKS OF NATURAL AND UNNATURAL NATURE

1. Ovid, The Metamorphoses (New York: Penguin Books, 1984), 29.

2. Ibid.

3. The Rig Veda, quoted in John Huizinga, Homo Ludens (Boston: Beacon Press, 1950), 106.

4. Ovid, The Metamorphoses, 31–32.

5. Arthaveda, quoted in Huizinga, Homo Ludens, 107.

6. Sigrid Hodel-Hoenes, Life and Death in Ancient Egypt (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press), 27.

7. Yves Bonnefoy, Mythologies, vol. 1, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991), 100.

8. E. A. Wallis Budge, ed. and trans., The Book of the Dead (New Hyde Park, NY: University Books, 1960), 458. (Slight revisions of vocabulary are mine.)

9. E. A. Wallis Budge, Amulets and Talismans (New Hyde Park, NY: University Books, 1961), 128, 135.

10. Museum of Ethnology, Rotterdam, comp., Dreaming of Paradise (Rotterdam: Martial and Snoek, 1993), 38.

11. Sydney H. Aufrère, ed., Encyclopédie Religieuse de l’Univers Vegetal, vol. 1 (Montpellier Ill, France: University Paul Valéry, 1999), 273.

12. Budge, Amulets and Talismans, 164.

13. Jacques Ninio, L’empreinte des Sens (Paris: Éditions Octile Jacob, 1991), 29.

14. Gilbert Waldbauer, Fireflies, Honey and Silk (Los Angeles: University of California Press, Berkeley, 2009), 66.

15. Jean Bottero, The Mesopotamians (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992), 37.

16. Robert Russett, Hyperanimation (New Barnett, UK: John Libbey Publishing, 2009), 70.

17. Ibid., 93.

18. Ibid., 95.

19. Ibid., 256.

HOUSES ON FIRE

1. Kathryn Davis, Hell (New York: Ecco Press, 1998), 25.

2. Werner Herzog, The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser. Directed by Werner Herzog. Performed by Bruno Schleinstein, Walter Ladengast, Brigitte Mira, and Reinhard Hauft (Mainz, Germany: Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen, 1974).

3. Joy Williams, The Changeling (New York: Doubleday, 1978), 85.

4. Davis, Hell, 51.

5. Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, The Wild Child (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996), 139.

6. Clarice Lispector, “The Imitation of the Rose,” in Other Fires: Short Fiction by Latin American Women, ed. Alberto Manguel, (New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1986), 46.

7. Ibid., 45.

8. Ibid., 45.

9. Ibid., 57.

10. Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart (New York: New Directions, 2012), 4.

11. Ibid., 3.

12. Ibid.

13. Ibid., 7.

14. Ibid., 11.

15. “Mange, tu ne sais pas qui te mangera!” Jean Ray, Oeuvres Complètes/3 (Paris: Robert Laffont, 1964), 243.

16. Davis, Hell, 23–24.

17. Ibid., 161.

18. Ibid., 95.

19. Ibid., 94.

20. Ibid., 22.

21. Ibid., 7.

22. Ibid., 94.

23. Ibid., 25.

24. Ibid., 65.

25. Ibid., 16.

26. Ibid., 101.

27. Ibid., 143.

28. Ibid., 133.

29. Noëlle Châtelet, Le Corps à Corps Culinaire (Paris: Sevil, 1977), 33.

30. “Les petits fours, exquis, servis l’après-midi, sur l’assiette de porcelaine avec le thé de Chine, sont déjà, bel et bien, excréments en puissance.” Ibid., 33.

31. “Les soufflés à la moelle, les gigots parfumés d’ail, et les volailles ruisselantes de jus. .” Ray, Oeuvres Complètes/3, 298.

32. Rafael Azcona, Francis Blanche, and Marco Ferreri, La Grande Bouffe. Directed by Marco Ferreri. Performed by Marcello Mastroianni, Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Piccoli, Philippe Noiret, and Andréa Ferréol (Bordeaux: Mara Films; Rome: Capitolina Produzioni Cinematografiche, 1973).

33. Walter de la Mare, Memoirs of a Midget (London: Telegram, 2009), 429.

34. Ibid., 429.

35. Ibid., 330.

36. Ibid., 187.

37. Ibid., 466.

38. Davis, Hell, 175.

39. Williams, The Changeling, 77.

40. Ibid., 83.

41. Ibid., 77.

42. Ibid., 86.

43. Ibid., 44, 93.

44. Terrence Malick, Tree of Life. Directed by Terrence Malick. Performed by Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Hunter McCracken, and Jessica Chastain (Los Angeles: River Road Entertainment, 2011).

45. Ibid.

46. Herzog, The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser.

47. Ibid.

48. Ibid.

49. Davis, Hell, 1.

THE EGYPTIAN PORTAL: THE ART OF LINDA OKAZAKI

1. Caroline Walker Bynum, Metamorphosis and Identity (New York: Zone Books, 2005), 117.

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Masson, Jeffrey Moussaieff. The Wild Child. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997.

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EROS BREATHING

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A CUP AND A RIVER

1. William Gass, On Being Blue (Boston: David R. Godine, 1997), 18.

2. William Gass, Omensetter’s Luck (New York: Penguin Books, 1997), 52.

3. Ibid., 19.

4. Ibid., 8.

5. Ibid., 27.

6. Ibid., 28.

7. Ibid., 260.

8. Ibid., 261.

9. Ibid., 9.

10. Ibid., 45.

11. Ibid., 34.

12. Ibid., 70.

13. Ibid., 44.

14. Ibid., 45.

15. Ibid., 67.

16. Ibid., 47.

17. Ibid., 35.

18. Ibid., 37.

19. Ibid., 252.

20. Ibid., 66.

21. Ibid., 64.

22. Ibid., 20.

23. Ibid., 41.

24. Ibid., 251.

25. Ibid., 63.

26. Ibid., 60.

27. Ibid., 154, 155.

28. Ibid., 24.

29. Gass, On Being Blue, 77.

30. Gass, Omensetter’s Luck, 47–48

THE WORLD IN A SEED: THE ART OF ANNE HIRONDELLE

1. Roberto Calasso, Ka: Stories of the Mind and Gods of India (New York: Random House, 1999), 272.

THE PRACTICE OF OBSCURITY

1. N. K. Sandars, trans., The Epic of Gilgamesh (New York: Penguin, Penguin Epic Series, 1972), 97. All references to The Epic of Gilgamesh refer to this translation. Other excellent translations are mentioned below.

2. Jun’ichir Tanizaki, In Praise of Shadows, trans. T. Harper, E. Seidensticker (Sedgwick, Maine: Leete’s Island Books, 1977; New York: Vintage Books, 2001), 42. Citations refer to the Vintage Books edition.

3. Sandars, The Epic of Gilgamesh, 97.

4. Ibid., 62.

5. Ibid., 67.

6. Ibid., 70.

7. Ibid., 93.

8. Ibid., 78.

9. Jorge Luis Borges, “Zahir,” in Collected Fictions, trans. Andrew Hurley (New York: Penguin Putnam, 1998), 247.

10. Alfonso D’Aquino, “Amorous,” in Reversible Monuments: Contemporary Mexican Poetry, ed. Mónica de la Torre and Michael Wiegers (Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2002), 161.

11. Elsa Cross, “Ivy,” in de la Torre and Wiegers, Reversible Monuments, 137.

12. Pura López-Colomé, “The Kiss of Death” Ibid., 351.

13. Ibn ‘Arabî, Le Chant de l’ardent desir (Paris, Actes Sud: 1989), 39.

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Gardner, John, and John Maier, trans. The Epic of Gilgamesh. New York: Vintage Books, 1989.

Wolf, Verner. Changing Concepts of the Bible: A Psychological Analysis of its Words, Symbols and Beliefs. New York: Hermitage House, 1951.

CANDLES OF INK

This essay, originally published in Australia, refers to a book as yet to be finished.