indescribably offensive: Brian Foster, “Einstein and His Love of Music,” Physics World, January 2005.
too personal, almost naked: “Why Einstein Didn’t Like Beethoven (Except the Missa Solemnis),” LvB and More, May 4, 2011. http://lvbandmore.blogspot.com/2011/05/54-why-einstein-didnt-like-beethoven.html. Accessed October 8, 2014.
keep your trap shut: Brian Foster, as cited above.
the war against Freud’s reality principle: Harold Bloom, “The Knight in the Mirror,” Guardian, December 13, 2003. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/dec/13/classics.miguelcervantes. Accessed November 6, 2014.
our souls touched, quivering: Adapted from Walt Whitman, “Who Learns My Lesson Complete,” Leaves of Grass (1855).
It insists on including information: Gazzaniga, as previously cited, 85.
[e]ach hemisphere was shown four: Michael Gazzaniga, “The Split Brain Revisited,” Scientific American 297 (1998): 51–55.
The patient had to choose: Gazzaniga 1998, as previously cited.
the left hemisphere did not say: Gazzaniga 1998, as previously cited, 82–83.
Since at the time the term quagga: “The Quagga Revival,” The Quagga Project South Africa. http://quaggaproject.org. Accessed October 9, 2014.
an older adult caring for another: Kyla King, “Report: Alzheimer’s Caregivers Suffer Heavy Toll,” Grand Rapids Press, March 15, 2011.
Chapter Six: Of Madness and Love II
had a loving, affectionate relationship: Pam Belluck, “Sex, Dementia and a Husband on Trial at Age 78,” New York Times, April 13, 2015. Unless otherwise specified, citations in this entire section of this chapter originate in this article.
Mrs. Rayhons was taken to a hospital: “Room for Debate: Can People with Dementia Have a Sex Life?” New York Times, April 22, 2015.
the intended cure proved: Gerald Sandler, Delores Mallory, et al., “IgA Anaphylactic Transfusion Reactions,” Transfusion Medicine Reviews 9, no. 1 (1995): 1.
faking a smile can improve: Roger Dooley, “Why Faking a Smile Is a Good Thing,” Forbes, February 26, 2015.
altogether the most free: Sigmund Freud, “Femininity,” New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis SE 33. 165. 1933a. Googlebooks. Web. Accessed March 28, 2015.
the most comprehensive sex survey: Marilynn Marchione, “Sex and the Seniors: Survey Shows Many Elderly People Remain Frisky,” New York Times, August 22, 2007.
Married Couples’ Sex Lives Rebound: Yagana Shah, “Married Couples’ Sex Lives Rebound—After 50 Years, Study Finds,” Huffington Post, February 19, 2015. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/19/married-couples-sex-lives-rebound-study_n_6713126.html. Accessed April 17, 2015.
i carry your heart: E. E. Cummings, “[I carry your heart with me],” Poetry Foundation. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/detail/49493. Accessed February 11, 2015. This poem originally appeared in the June 1952 issue of Poetry magazine.
fuller, as if[I] were married: Nikolai Gogol, “The Overcoat.” http://intranet.micds.org/upper/ArtDept/Drama/Inspector/Overcoat.pdf. Accessed February 27, 2015.
the soul spends: Luce Irigaray, The Speculum of the Other Woman (New York: Cornell University Press, 1985).
Donna and I would ‘play’: “Room for Debate,” as previously cited.
We just loved to be together: “Former Iowa Legislator Henry Rayhons, 78, Found Not Guilty of Sexually Abusing Wife with Alzheimer’s,” Washington Post, April 23, 2015.
didn’t South African scientists clone quaggas: P. Heywood, “The Quagga and Science: What Does the Future Hold for This Extinct Zebra?” Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 56, no. 1 (2013): 53–64.
I understand the world moves: Banesh Hoffmann and Helen Dukas, Albert Einstein, The Human Side: New Glimpses from His Archives (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1979).
injury to a specific part: Michael Gazzaniga (2011), as previously cited.
Many of them remain social: Benedict Carey, “After Injury, Fighting to Regain a Sense of Self,” New York Times, August 8, 2009.
Chapter Seven: Makeovers in Extremis
the deadliest security operation: Pascal Fletcher, “South Africa’s ‘Hill of Horror’: Self-Defense or Massacre?” Reuters, August 17, 2012. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-safrica-lonmin-shooting-idUSBRE87G0MS20120817. Accessed October 15, 2014.
my doctor judged the birth: Fairlady, November 8, 1978, 183–185.
nothing has time to gather: W. B. Yeats, “Introduction,” Irish Fairy and Folk Tales, ed. W. B. Yeats (New York: Modern Library, 2003).
Living in an increasingly visually mediated: Shira Tarrant and Marjorie Jolles, “Introduction: Feminism Confronts Fashion,” in Fashion Talks: Undressing the Power of Style (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2012).
each of us engages with fashion: Beth [no last name given]. “Who Do Women Dress For?” Dappered, September 19, 2013. https://dappered.com/2013/09/who-do-women-dress-for. Accessed May 23, 2014.
one sequin at a time: “The Outrageous Lady Gaga,” Glamour (UK), July 7, 2010. http://www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/celebrity/celebrity-galleries/2010/07/lady-gaga-interview-quotes/viewgallery/388077. Accessed June 21, 2014.
A tomb now suffices: “Alexander the Great Quotes,” Brainy Quote. http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/alexander_the_great.html. Accessed July 27, 2014. My paraphrase of Alexander the Great’s supposed epitaph.
Modesty is an attitude: “Modesty.” The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints [website]. https://www.lds.org/topics/modesty. Accessed July 8, 2014. Immodest note: My son, Newton Saunders, was one of the lead developers of the “new” LDS website. Although he was one of the top programmers at the company that was contracted to create the website, the LDS committee in charge of the project declined his participation because, not being LDS, he didn’t have a “Temple Recommend,” or document that signifies that he has “been found worthy” after interviews by church leaders. When the project was subsequently plagued with problems and fell behind schedule, Newton’s company recommended him for the rescue. The church relented. At the project’s completion, Newton and his wife, Cheryl, an ex-Mormon, were invited to dinner with a member of the church’s highest governing body, the Twelve Apostles, an occasion to which Cheryl wore a dress with a décolletage that only met the LDS prescriptions of modesty with the aid of a bolero jacket. At the dinner, the Apostle praised Newton not only for his excellent work, but also for his thorough knowledge of the Mormon scriptures, which had been his task to incorporate in the website.
My little lamb, do you know: As I remember from a phone conversation in 1978. Translated from Afrikaans.
Vanity working on a weak head: Jane Austen, Emma (1815). http://www.austen.com/emma/vol1ch8.htm. Accessed March 31, 2015.
only mild and lulling airs: Homer, Odyssey, book 4, line 605, The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Odyssey of Homer, by Homer, trans. William Cowper. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/24269/24269-h/24269-h.htm. Accessed July 12, 2014.
Chapter Eight: The Exit That Dare Not Say Its Name
liked its poetic clumsiness: Damien Hirst, “The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, 1991,” DamienHirst.com. http://www.damienhirst.com/the-physical-impossibility-of. Accessed July 12, 2014. The quote was taken from Gordon Burn and Damien Hirst, On the Way to Work (London: Faber and Faber, 2001), 19.
£50,000 for fish: Carol Vogel, “Swimming with Famous Dead Sharks,” New York Times, October 1, 2006.
you could tell it wasn’t real: Carol Vogel, as previously cited.
if the glass breaks, we mend it: Sean O’Hagan, “Damien Hirst: ‘I still believe art is more powerful than money,’” Guardian, March 10, 2012.
How to Swim with Sharks: Voltaire Cousteau, “How to Swim with Sharks.” Paris, 1812. http://infohost.nmt.edu/~dan/per/quotes/How%20to%20swim%20with%20sharks.htm. Accessed July 7, 2014.
My theory is, be the shark: Duncan Riley, “Brad Pitt Defends Angelina… and Jennifer Aniston,” Inquisitr, January 7, 20
09. http://www.inquisitr.com/14595/brad-pitt-defends-angelina-and-jennifer-aniston. Accessed June 28, 2014.
every day you have to deal: Hans Ulrich Obrist and Damien Hirst, “An Interview,” 2007, DamienHirst.com. http://www.damienhirst.com/texts/20071/feb—huo. Accessed July 13, 2014.
Being simultaneously dead and alive: Adapted from a cartoon from Omaggio de Venezia, an art magazine.
The shark is simultaneously life: Roberta Smith, “Just When You Thought It Was Safe,” New York Times, October 16, 2007.
he has engaged James Fox: Catherine Mayer, “Damien Hirst: ‘What Have I done? I’ve Created a Monster,’” Guardian, June 30, 2015.
a kernel of identity: Mitchell Stephens, “To Thine Own Selves Be True: A New Breed of Psychologists Says There’s No One Answer to the Question ‘Who Am I?’” Los Angeles Times Magazine, August 23, 1992.
the self divides the moment: Mitchell Stephens, as previously cited.
a person could deliberately fashion: John N. King, “Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare” [review], Modern Philology 80, no. 2 (1982): 183–185.
embedded in the Buddhist teaching: Robin Cooper (Ratnaprabha), review of David P. Barash’s Buddhist Biology: Ancient Eastern Wisdom Meets Modern Western Science, Western Buddhist Review, Buddhist Centre, March 7, 2014. https://thebuddhistcentre.com/westernbuddhistreview/buddhism-biology-interconnectedness. Accessed July 30, 2014.
are one body in Christ: Romans 12:5.
if each species was created separately: Ansar Fayyazuddin, “On Darwin’s 200th Anniversary,” Against the Current, no. 143, November–December 2009. http://www.solidarity-us.org/node/2444. Accessed July 20, 2014.
Darwin proposed natural selection: Prehistoric Life: A Definitive Visual History of Life on Earth (New York: Dorling Kindersley Publishing, 2009).
one small step for a man: Natalie Wolchover, “‘One Small Step for Man’: Was Neil Armstrong Misquoted?” Space.com, August 27, 2012. http://www.space.com/17307-neil-armstrong-one-small-step-quote.html. Once he had safely returned to terra firma, Neil Armstrong maintained that he had been misheard and that his statement actually contained the article “a” before “man,” which is the form in which his declaration makes sense.
people no longer willing to comply: Johan Malan, “The Dangers of Postmodernism,” Bible Guidance, July 2010. http://www.bibleguidance.co.za/Engarticles/Postmodernism.htm. Accessed August 11, 2011.
bereft of origin and purpose: Robert S. Gall, “The Self after Postmodernity” [review], Journal of the American Academy of Religion 67, no. 1 (1999): 248–250.
through its discourse, its actions: Ibid.
most complex and integrated social network: “Effects of Increasing Digital Connections on Relationships and Community,” The Diane Rehm Show, August 11, 2014.
in the slow-motion way of Alzheimer’s: “My Father’s Brain,” New Yorker, September 10, 2001.
magnifies the stigmatization already: Susan M. Behuniak, “The Living Dead? The Construction of People with Alzheimer’s Disease as Zombies,” Ageing & Society 31, no. 1 (2011): 70–92.
every brain it infects: Behuniak, as previously cited. 82. She cites Thomas DeBaggio, author of Losing My Mind: An Intimate Look at Life with Alzheimer’s, and David Shenk, author of The Forgetting: Alzheimer’s: Portrait of an Epidemic.
significant loss of intellectual abilities: “Definition of Dementia,” MedicineNet.com. http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=2940. Accessed July 12, 2014.
characterised by global cognitive impairment: National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health, “Dementia: The NICE-SCIE Guideline on Supporting People with Dementia and Their Carers in Health and Social Care,” 67. https://www.scie.org.uk/publications/misc/dementia/dementia-fullguideline.pdf.
the person is present and approaches AD: Behuniak, as previously cited, 74. She is citing Thomas Kitwood.
When we were in Chicago in October: Derek Humphry, Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying (New York: Delta, 2010).
He was acquitted of assisted: Derek Humphry and Mary Clement, Freedom to Die: People, Politics, and the Right-to-Die Movement (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998); Euthanasia Research Guidance Organization (ERGO), http://www.assistedsuicide.org. Accessed June 24, 2014.
or even prosecuted at all: “Kevorkian Released from Prison after 8 Years.” NBCnews.com, June 1, 2007. http://www.nbcnews.com/id/18974940/ns/health-health_care/t/kevorkian-released-prison-after-years#.WAfSwZMrKEI. Accessed June 25, 2014.
The last case prosecuted that I could find: Yasmine Hafiz, “Barbara Mancini Innocent of Assisted Suicide: Nurse Accused of Aiding Father’s Death Has Case Thrown Out,” Huffington Post, February 12, 2014. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/12/barbara-mancini-innocent-assisted-suicide_n_4774275.html. Accessed October 13, 2014.
Mature and savvy beyond her years: Katherine Seligman, “Taking Control: Facing Terminal Diagnosis, Brittany Maynard Plans to End Her Life,” California Magazine, October 27, 2014. http://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/just-in/2015-10-05/taking-control-facing-terminal-diagnosis-brittany-maynard. Accessed March 27, 2014. Seligman quotes Barbara Coombs Lee, president of Compassion and Choices.
the passing of a right-to-die law: Nicole Weisensee Egan, “Cancer Patient Brittany Maynard: Ending My Life—My Way,” People, October 27, 2014; Marcia Angell, “The Brittany Maynard Effect: How She Is Changing the Debate on Assisted Dying,” Washington Post, October 31, 2014; Mollie Reilly, “Right-to-Die Bill Passes in California,” Huffington Post, September 11, 2015. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/california-right-to-die_us_55f1fbbae4b002d5c078cd6b. Accessed September 24, 2015.
will be seriously considering PAD: Charles Baron, “Physician Aid in Dying: Whither Legalization after Brittany Maynard?” Health Affairs Blog, March 12, 2015. http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2015/03/12/physician-aid-in-dying-whither-legalization-after-brittany-maynard. Accessed March 26, 2015.
voluntary stopping of eating and drinking: Nell Lake, “Aid-in-Dying Loophole: Advocates Want You to Know You Can Stop Eating and Drinking,” CommonHealth (WBUR), April 18, 2014. http://www.wbur.org/commonhealth/2014/04/18/dying-loophole-stop-eating-and-drinking. Accessed July 15, 2014. WBUR is Boston’s NPR station.
After she met any one of these criteria: Kathleen W. Klein, “On Jackie’s Terms: My Mom Was Ready to Die,” Hubpages.com, March 20, 2014. Accessed July 17, 2014.
being with family, having the touch of others: Atul Gawande, “Letting Go,” New Yorker, August 2, 2010.
the herds of horses: Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (ca. 70–ca. 135 CE), Lives of the Twelve Caesars, trans. Joseph Gavorse, 80–82. “Suetonius on the Death of Caesar,” Livius.org. http://www.livius.org/sources/content/suetonius/suetonius-on-the-death-of-caesar. Accessed August 15, 2014.
I have lived long enough to satisfy: The Commentaries of Caesar, to Which Is Prefixed a Discourse Concerning the Roman Art of War, trans. William Duncan, vol. 2 (1806), 188.
a small parenthesis in eternity: Thomas Browne, Christian Morals, ed. John Jeffery (London: Henry Washbourne, 1845). Browne’s actual phrase reads, “The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity.”
Genesis: In the beginning: Genesis 1:1–2.
Many African societies: James Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (New York: New Press, 1995), 260.
In the beginning was the word: Dylan Thomas, “In the Beginning.” http://www.poemhunter.com/best-poems/dylan-thomas/in-the-beginning. Accessed August 19, 2014.
The very molecules that make up your body: Neil deGrasse Tyson, “Beyond the Big Bang,” The Universe [TV show], September 4, 2007.
man first of all exists: Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism Is a Humanism (Cambridge, MA: Yale University Press, 2007).
the future coils: Marge Piercy, “September Afternoon at Four O’Clock,” The Moon Is Always Female (New York: Knopf, 1980).
the holiness of [their]
hearts’ affections: John Keats, as previously cited.
expires in a whimper: Neil deGrasse Tyson, “Ends of the World,” Natural History Magazine, June 1996.
truth of the Imagination: John Keats, as previously cited.
single photons stretched across light-years of space: Fraser Cain, “How Will the Universe End?” Universe Today, October 17, 2013. http://www.universetoday.com/105588/how-will-the-universe-end. Accessed October 21, 2013.
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