Amaranthine Historica Page 12
[27] Total Control, The Motels
[28] The Windmills of Your Mind is a song with music by French composer Michel Legrand. The English lyrics were written by Americans Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman. The French lyrics, under the title Les moulins de mon cœur, were written by Eddy Marnay.
[29] KC & The Sunshine Band, Give It Up
[30] Hotel California is the title track from the Eagles' album of the same name
[31] Dust in the Wind is a song recorded by American rock band Kansas and written by band member Kerry Livgren
[32] The Flying Lizards, Money
[33] American Pie, by Don McLean.
[34] Dust explosion
[35] A good translation would be “My own sunshine.” O sole mio is a Neapolitan song written in 1898. Its lyrics were written by Giovanni Capurro and the music was composed by Eduardo di Capua and Alfredo Mazzucchi.
[36] Amira Willighagen and Patrizio Buanne performance during the Classics is Groot concert held in South Africa on 30 July 2016.
[37] “Che bella cosa ‘na iurnata ‘e sole...” What a beautiful thing is a sunny day!
[38] In the Constance Garnett translation of Tolstoy's War and Peace she gives us the phrase "strange lightness of being" during the description of Prince Andrey's death.
[39] Vladimir Horowitz
[40] There's No Business Like Show Business, Irving Berlin
[41] Good Vibrations is a song composed and produced by Brian Wilson with words by Mike Love for the Beach Boys.
[42] Welcome to My Nightmare, by Alice Cooper
[43] Something in the Water (Does Not Compute), by Prince
[44] Eye In The Sky, Alan Parsons Project
[45] Knockin' On Heaven's Door, by Bob Dylan
[46] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
[47] Hit The Road, Jack, Ray Charles
[48] Ode to Man from Sophocles’ Antigone
[49] Paraphrased from Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra: Act 5, Scene 2
[50] Thelma & Louise is a 1991 American road film directed by Ridley Scott and written by Callie Khouri.
[51] L'inferno —made in 1911—is the world's oldest surviving feature-length film.
[52] Lover's Cross, Jim Croce.
[53] C. P. Cavafy, Waiting for the Barbarians
[54] Sleeping With Sirens, With Ears To See And Eyes To Hear
[55] Picture This, by Blondie
[56] John F. Kennedy
[57] Benito Mussolini’s famous line.
[58] From The Life of Galileo (German: Leben des Galilei), also known as Galileo; a play by Bertolt Brecht.
[59] The Apology of Socrates, by Plato.
[60] In the T. S. Eliot poem, The Waste Land, this quote is written in Greek and Latin as follows: Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere, et cum illi pueri dicerent: Σίβυλλα τί θέλεις; respondebat illa: ἀποθανεῖν θέλω. The translation generally associated with Eliot's poem is as follows: For with my own eyes I saw the Sibyl hanging in a bottle, and when the young boys asked her, “Sibyl, what do you want?” she replied, “I want to die”.
The quote refers to the mythic Cumaean Sibyl who bargained with Apollo, offering her virginity for years of life totalling as many grains of sand as she could hold in her hand. However, after she spurned him, he allowed her to wither away over the span of her near-immortality, as she forgot to ask for eternal youth.
[61] Piece Of My Heart, by Janis Joplin.
[62] The Life of Galileo, by Bertolt Brecht.
[63] Bertolt Brecht, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui. “Therefore learn how to see and not to gape. To act instead of talking all day long. The world was almost won by such an ape! The nations put him where his kind belong. But don't rejoice too soon at your escape - The womb he crawled from is still going strong.”
[64] Saint Joan of the Stockyards, Bertolt Brecht.
[65] Abraham Lincoln
[66] Tripe Soup – a traditional Romanian sour soup made with beef tripe, garlic, sour cream and vinegar.
[67] ‘Little Boy’ was the codename for the atomic bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 during World War II by the Boeing B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay, piloted by Colonel Paul W. Tibbets, Jr., commander of the 509th Composite Group of the United States Army Air Forces.