Source Quotes & Acknowledgements

AH!

All of AH! is indebted, of course, to the Diamond Sutra, from which ideas flowered, to which many references are made, and from which a number of quotations have been adapted. Many translations of the Diamond Sutra exist. A useful one by Charles Muller is available online here: http://www.acmuller.net/bud-canon/diamond_sutra.html

The Story Of Being Invisible

“A mystic Shape did move Behind me" is from Sonnet 1 of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnets from the Portuguese. “Hope is the thing with feathers” and “Alone I cannot be” are lines from Emily Dickinson poems.

Heads Or Tails

“The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it s comprehensible,” is a famous quote from Albert Einstein.

Trouble Is My Middle Name [“Woody Allen Story”]

In this story, a person wakes up spouting movie lines, waking from a dream to be in another dream. "It seems the world's divided into good and bad people. The good ones sleep better... while the bad ones seem to enjoy the waking hours, …” is adapted from a Woody Allen joke, “It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.” “Trouble is my middle name” is a common phrase and the title of a Bobby Vinton song, which also appears in the Woody Allen documentary The Secret World of 'Antz.’ “I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens,” is also a famous Woody Allen joke. “Life as we know it is like a shark. It has to constantly move forward or it dies,” is adapted from the following line in Woody Allen’s movie, Annie Hall: “A relationship, I think, is like a shark, you know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies. And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark.”

"Our consciousness is the totality of our seeds, … If we practice mindful living, we will know how to water the seeds of joy and transform the seeds of sorrow and suffering so that understanding, compassion, and loving kindness will flower in us–"

is adapted from Miracle of Mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh, in which he writes about “watering our good seeds.”

Well-Used Dollar Bill

This story is indebted to Ernest Francisco Fenollosa’s essay "The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry."