10:04 on Theses on the Philosophy of History: ““The storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned.” —Walter Benjamin (epigraph to a part)”
10:04 on Specimen Days: “I would sit at my desk and read Specimen Days, his bizarre memoir, for hours.”
10:04 on Leaves of Grass: “Or the two first editions on the market of Leaves of Grass.”
10:04 on America: “the one extant recording of Whitman, made by Edison: he recites four lines from ‘America’”
10:04 on Midsummer: “Narrator opens Bronk's selected poems and the poem “MIDSUMMER” is quoted in full”
10:04 on The Door: “I played him reading ‘The Door’ in the early sixties”
10:04 on High Flight: “they were taken from a poem by John Gillespie Magee entitled ‘High Flight’”
10:04 on Correspondances: “And of course we have Baudelaire’s sense of ‘Correspondances.’”
Angle of Yaw on One-Way Street: “Walter Benjamin, “One-way Street” (epigraph on printing and the newspaper)”