Chapter I: At Midnight, All the Agents...
"At midnight, all the agents and superhuman crew, go out and round up everyone who knows more than they do."
--Desolation Row by Bob Dylan
Chapter II: Absent Friends
"And I'm up while the dawn is breaking, even though my heart is aching. I should be drinking a toast to absent friends instead of these comedians."
--The Comedians by Elvis Costello.
Chapter III: The Judge of All the Earth
"Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?"
--Genesis chapter 18, verse 25
Chapter IV: Watchmaker
"The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking...the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker."
--Albert Einstein
Chapter V: Fearful Symmetry
"Tyger, Tyger
burning bright,
In the forests,
of the nights,
What immortal hand or eye,
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?"
--William Blake
Chapter VI: The Abyss Gazes Also
"Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes into you."
--Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Chapter VII: A Brother to Dragons
"I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls. My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat."
—JOB chapter 30, verses 29-30
Chapter VIII: Old Ghosts
"On Hallowe'en the old ghosts come about us, and they speak to some; to others they are dumb."
—Hallowe'en Eleanor Farjean
Chapter IX: The Darkness of Mere Being
"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being."
--C.G. Jung
Memories, Dreams, Reflections
Chapter X: Two Riders Were Approaching...
"Outside in the distance a wild cat did growl, two riders were approaching, the wind began to howl."
--Bob Dylan
Chapter XI: Look On My Works, Ye Mighty
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"
--Ozymandias Percy Bysshe Shelley
Chapter XII: A Stronger Loving World
"It would be a stronger world, a stronger loving world, to die in."
--John Cale
"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes."
"Who watches the watchmen?"
--Juvenal, Satires, VI, 347
Quoted as the epigraph of the Tower Commission Report, 1987