This Magnificent Desolation (44 page)

Lines from
The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade
by Thomas Lynch.
Copyright © 1997 by Thomas Lynch. Used by permission of W. W. Norton &
Company, Inc., and by kind permission of Thomas Lynch.
From
A Fortunate Man
by John Berger and Jean Mohr, copyright © 1967 by John
Berger. Used by permission of Pantheon Books, a division of Random House,
Inc., and by kind permission of John Berger.
Reprinted with permission of Scribner, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc.,
from
Autobiographies: The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats
, volume III, by William
Butler Yeats; edited by Denis Donoghue. Copyright © 1972 by Michael Butler
Yeats and Anne Yeats. All rights reserved.
From
Estrangement: Being Some Fifty Thoughts from a Diary Kept by William Butler
Yeats in the Year Nineteen Hundred and Nine
, by William Butler Yeats (The Cuala
Press: Dublin, 1926; Shannon: Irish University Press, 1970). Reprinted by kind
permission of Gráinne Yeats.
From
Duino Elegies
by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by J. B. Leishman/
Stephen Spender. Copyright 1939 by W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., renewed
© 1967 by Stephen Spender and J. B. Leishman. Used by permission of
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
From
The Greatest Secret in the World
by Og Mandino, copyright 1972 by Og
Mandino. Used by permission of Bantam Books, a division of Random House, Inc.
And with thanks to Eric Jones for his kind permission to reprint excerpts from
the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal.

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