"You can't just tell your story... by stitching reference to reference, quote to quote, and expect it to be meaningful or even coherent."

So said Jinny Tolmie, but that didn't stop Alba from trying. See below for a spoiler-free list of works discussed, quoted, or directly referenced in Alba's retelling of the final year of life on Fort Colwyn.

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• Calvino, Italo - Cosmicomics
• Calvino, Italo - If on a winter's night a traveller
• Calvino, Italo - Why Read the Classics?
• Colville, Alex - My Experience as a Painter and Some General Views of Art
• Conrad, Joseph - Heart of Darkness
• Conrad, Joseph - The Mirror of the Sea
• Cronin, Ray - Alex Colville: Life & Work
• Dickinson, Emily - Tell all the truth but tell it slant
• Dow, Helen J. - The Art of Alex Colville
• Garfield, Jay (trans.) - Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way
• Joyce, James - Finnegan's Wake
• Joyce, James - Ulysses
• Melville, Herman - Moby Dick
• Müller, Max (trans.) - The Heart Sutra
• O'Brian, Patrick - Master and Commander
• O'Brian, Patrick - The Surgeon's Mate
• Poolman, Koen - Play Twice Before Listening
• Shakespeare, William - Titus Andronicus
• Thoreau, Henry David - Walden
• Woolf, Virginia - The Waves

Arts + Music

• Beach Boys, The - Help Me, Rhonda
• Beach Boys, The - I Just Wasn't Made For These Times
• Beach Boys, The - Sloop John B
• Beach Boys, The - When I Grow Up (To Be A Man)
• Beach Boys, The - Wouldn't It Be Nice
• Boards of Canada - Left Side Drive
• Boards of Canada - Music is Math
• Boards of Canada - Reach for the Dead
• Colville, Alex - Athletes
• Colville, Alex - Couple on Beach
• Colville, Alex - Embarkation
• Colville, Alex - Living Room
• Colville, Alex - To Prince Edward Island
• Colville, Alex - Traveller
• Debussy, Claude - La Mer
• Grainger, Percy - Lost Lady Found
• Homer, Winslow - The Fog Warning
• Monet, Claude - Impression, Sunrise
• Seikyo (Ching-chu) - Ox-herding Pictures
• Wagner, Richard - The Ring of the Nibelung
• Wilson, Brian - Mrs. O'Leary's Cow
• Wood, Sam (dir) - The Pride of the Yankees

Referenced for CGs

• Colville, Alex - Berlin Bus
• Colville, Alex - Nudes on Shore
• Colville, Alex - Ocean Limited
• Colville, Alex - Refrigerator
• Colville, Alex - Soldier and Girl
• Colville, Alex - Woman in Bathtub