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

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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