The Old Man and the Enterprise Reference Sheet
I promised this from the beginning and I think it's about as good as it's going to get.
Well I promised a final count of all the references used throughout The Old Man and the Enterprise and here it is!
Let's start at the beginning.
Of course there are some direct quotes that are cited in text like the Bible quotes and additionally Bones is caught reading The Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway, The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald and The Catcher in the Rye by Salinger.
The Chapter titles are mostly quotes (number corresponds to chapter):
3. "Whoever Believes in Him Shall Have Eternal Life" - is John 3:16; The promise of God to his people and belief in Christ
5. "Babylon Revisited" - is the title of a short story by F Scott Fitzgerald from the short story collection Babylon Revisited and Other Short Stories
6. "The Totality of True Thoughts is a Picture of the World" - is a quote from Tractatus-Logico Philosophicus
7. "Now, Voyager" - a line from The Untold Want from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
8. "But I'll leave you now, with myself, the man I used to be..." - is a line from The Motorcycle Diaries by Che Guevara
9. "Beautiful, Surprising and Deep" - this is a bit of a misquote from Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut (it also shows up again later)
10. "Father forgive them for they know not what they do" - a Bible quote, Luke 23:34
11. "I Don't KNow What I Can Save You From" - is the name of a song by the Kings of Convenience from their album Quiet is the New Loud
12. "All men Kill the thing they love" - this is a line from the poem The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde
13. "Talented and Bright; Lonely and Uptight" - from the song Aside by The Weakerthans from their album Left & Leaving
14. "By a love so much refined, that ourselves know not what it is" - and this would be A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning by John Donne
15. "So are they all, all honourable men" - of course, Mark Antony's speech from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
16. "I'll marry you when you're sleeping - is the name of a song by Voice on Tape
17. "It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution." - Is a quote from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
18. “When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain” - is a quote by William Shakespeare
19. "Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up." -Galatians 6:9
Alright, I'm sure I've missed some things here and there but I'm going to try and be as comprehensive as possible.
"They prepare a face to meet the faces they will meet" -- is a slight mis-quote of The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot
"He has come unstuck in time." -- is of course a quote from Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
"nothing ever saves anyone's life, it just postpones their death" -- is a line from The History Boys; Posner is the one who says it
"And yet, it is the last enemy that shall be destroyed. Corinthians." -- this is a reference to the verse in Corinthians in the Bible "The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death." Though many Harry Potter fans will recognize it from the inscription on the graves of Lily & James Potter
"She knows by the words she is missing that the value of 'I love you' is passing between the two." -- this is a mis-quote from the introduction to Musée de l'os et de l'eau (ENG: Museum of Bone and Water) by Nicole Brossard
"he was kind of a dick, if that's what elusive means" -- is actually a line donated by my friend provetheworst; or rather by her roommate. It's just stuck over time but I promised I would cite her.
"That night he dreams of only one thing. That which he was born for." And this is a misquote from The Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway; the actual line is "Now is the time to think of only one thing. That which I was born for."
"'I'm the man who loves you.'" -- is the last line in the song I Am Trying to Break Your Heart and also the title of a song (I'm the Man Who Loves You) both by Wilco from their CD Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
"McCoy hears the echoes of a soliloquy reverberating in his mind" -- is a hugely vague reference to the 'To be or not to be' soliloquy in Shakespeare's Hamlet
"As the last lines from Marc Antony's speech to the Roman people slips away, he feels suddenly prepared." -- referencing Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and Mark Antony's speech -- "But Brutus says he was ambitious And Brutus is an honourable man, so are they all, all honourable men"
"No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be; Am an attendant lord, one that will do. To swell a progress, start a scene or two, advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool. Deferential, glad to be of use, politic, cautious, and meticulous; Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse; At times, indeed, almost ridiculous- almost, at times, the Fool." -- this is a verbatim quote from The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot
"The Fool." -- these are the two words that McCoy pulls out of Eliot's poem; but they are reference to the tarot card, The Fool which is in the Major Arcana of the tarot. The Fool can have many meanings but in most readings it means a fresh start, new beginnings, seeking adventure.
"but he is as unafraid as the shepherds in the meadow when they were heralded by the angel when Christ was born." -- referencing the Bible here again when the Angel Gabriel came to the shepherds in the meadow to herald the birth of Christ -- New Testament.
"genuine though somehow sad." -- again a vague reference to the movie The History Boys; Hector describes Dakin as 'somehow sad' and Dorothy replies with 'you always think they're sad'
"I tried to make a real old man, a real boy, a real sea and a real fish and real sharks. But if I made them good and true enough they would mean many things." -- this is a quote by Hemingway about The Old Man and the Sea; people asked for definitive symbolism and I think this was his way of giving them the finger and saying it is what it is
"'...am I in your dreams? I'd like to know...'" -- Jim is again quoting Wilco here, the song is (Was I) in Your Dreams from their album Being There
"Sweeping out the cobwebs that hold up progress and pulling the curtains and blinds to let the light in." -- half of this is a quote from Marching Bands of Manhattan by Death Cab for Cutie from their album Plans
"Jim tucks himself back into the house as if he belongs there, as if it were made for him." -- misquoting of a line from Gone With the Wind -- This is what Ashley tells Melanie when they're at the Twelve Oaks barbeque before the start of the Civil War
"A man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated." -- this is also from The Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway
In the chapter on philosophy Wittgenstein and Santayana are pretty obviously quoted so I won't bother citing them anymore than to say that I'm quoting Wittgenstein from his book Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.
"They have a lot of time, or maybe they don't. But McCoy likes to think so, and so he pretends." -- misquote of the song My Favourite Chords by The Weakerthans from their album Left & Leaving
"He has shrugged off what it means to be the Fool and instead he is the Stars." -- this is another reference to the Tarot Card - I read this beautiful description of the story of the Star card and about how it became the guiding light for the Fool - how it predicts hope and healing and looking to the future which is why I chose that particular phrase there.
"no man's knowledge can go beyond his experience" - a quote from philosopher John Locke
"and McCoy has found his own way home" - this is actually a bit of a quote from Panic! At the Disco's song Folkin' Around from their album Pretty. Odd.
The number on McCoy's baseball tee is 44, which is actually the number of famed Atlanta Braves player Hank Aaron.
"Listen.
Every beginning has an end, so too with this; it begins with "Listen" and ends with 'he loved me too.'" - this is a play on the beginning of the novel Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut - I thought it was a fitting homage after his recent passing.
"Circumstance being what it is; the world is everything that is the case." - Wittgenstein again with a cameo.
"Yes, yes Jim. You do exist. As certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy.
'Thank God... you'll live and live forever.'" - a quote with some minor tweaks from the famous Yes Virginia There Is A Santa Claus letter.
"If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing." - 1 Corinthians 13:2
There's a brief allusion to Hester Prynne from Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter
"He thinks of the smallest bones: the feet and the inner ear.
It's such an enormous thing to walk and to listen." - Lyrics from the song My Favourite Chords by The Weakerthans
"they are beautiful rose-gold figures blown full of life by writers and directors, and after hours they sit around and talk in whispers and giggled innuendoes, and the ends of many adventures flow through them." - from the short story Crazy Sunday by F. Scott Fitzgerald
"The radio, the open door.
And McCoy is this: A faulty string of blue Christmas lights.
Jim swims through frequencies, he lets that stranger in and McCoy is blinking off and on and off again." - another quote from My Favourite Chords by The Weakerthans
"It's fragmented, by a lot of things, but in the end they find a picture of life that is beautiful, surprising and deep." - the last part is kind of a double word score. There's an allusion in there to a piece by Vonnegut, again from Slaughterhouse Five; he talks about the Tralfamadorians' concept of 'novels' however the double entendre is that "Picture of My Life" is also a song by Jamiroquai which always breaks my heart just a little.
I think in the end I'd like to give a nod to the following for their inspiration: classic literature, general relativity, the shuttle program, the Hubble Space Telescope, the Unified Field Theory (as the Holy Grail of physics), history, the Spitzer Space telescope, String Theory, Mars Phoenix, Brian Greene, indie music, NASA, Michio Kaku, 'D' and 'C' for every rodeo we won, astro-physics, Chandra X-Ray observatory, philosophy, every movie I ever saw, Rovers Spirit and Opportunity, STS-107 & STS-51 & Apollo 1, Georgia summer nights, Cassini Saturn, 85%+ humidity, quantum mechanics, CERN, Saturday nights second row from the top, poetry, romance languages and the deep space network.
I tried to write a real doctor and a real captain and a real space ship and a real Georgia farmhouse, but if I did my job, if I was true to all of them, they would mean many things to many people.
Well I promised a final count of all the references used throughout The Old Man and the Enterprise and here it is!
Let's start at the beginning.
Of course there are some direct quotes that are cited in text like the Bible quotes and additionally Bones is caught reading The Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway, The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald and The Catcher in the Rye by Salinger.
The Chapter titles are mostly quotes (number corresponds to chapter):
3. "Whoever Believes in Him Shall Have Eternal Life" - is John 3:16; The promise of God to his people and belief in Christ
5. "Babylon Revisited" - is the title of a short story by F Scott Fitzgerald from the short story collection Babylon Revisited and Other Short Stories
6. "The Totality of True Thoughts is a Picture of the World" - is a quote from Tractatus-Logico Philosophicus
7. "Now, Voyager" - a line from The Untold Want from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
8. "But I'll leave you now, with myself, the man I used to be..." - is a line from The Motorcycle Diaries by Che Guevara
9. "Beautiful, Surprising and Deep" - this is a bit of a misquote from Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut (it also shows up again later)
10. "Father forgive them for they know not what they do" - a Bible quote, Luke 23:34
11. "I Don't KNow What I Can Save You From" - is the name of a song by the Kings of Convenience from their album Quiet is the New Loud
12. "All men Kill the thing they love" - this is a line from the poem The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde
13. "Talented and Bright; Lonely and Uptight" - from the song Aside by The Weakerthans from their album Left & Leaving
14. "By a love so much refined, that ourselves know not what it is" - and this would be A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning by John Donne
15. "So are they all, all honourable men" - of course, Mark Antony's speech from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
16. "I'll marry you when you're sleeping - is the name of a song by Voice on Tape
17. "It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution." - Is a quote from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
18. “When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain” - is a quote by William Shakespeare
19. "Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up." -Galatians 6:9
Alright, I'm sure I've missed some things here and there but I'm going to try and be as comprehensive as possible.
"They prepare a face to meet the faces they will meet" -- is a slight mis-quote of The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot
"He has come unstuck in time." -- is of course a quote from Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
"nothing ever saves anyone's life, it just postpones their death" -- is a line from The History Boys; Posner is the one who says it
"And yet, it is the last enemy that shall be destroyed. Corinthians." -- this is a reference to the verse in Corinthians in the Bible "The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death." Though many Harry Potter fans will recognize it from the inscription on the graves of Lily & James Potter
"She knows by the words she is missing that the value of 'I love you' is passing between the two." -- this is a mis-quote from the introduction to Musée de l'os et de l'eau (ENG: Museum of Bone and Water) by Nicole Brossard
"he was kind of a dick, if that's what elusive means" -- is actually a line donated by my friend provetheworst; or rather by her roommate. It's just stuck over time but I promised I would cite her.
"That night he dreams of only one thing. That which he was born for." And this is a misquote from The Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway; the actual line is "Now is the time to think of only one thing. That which I was born for."
"'I'm the man who loves you.'" -- is the last line in the song I Am Trying to Break Your Heart and also the title of a song (I'm the Man Who Loves You) both by Wilco from their CD Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
"McCoy hears the echoes of a soliloquy reverberating in his mind" -- is a hugely vague reference to the 'To be or not to be' soliloquy in Shakespeare's Hamlet
"As the last lines from Marc Antony's speech to the Roman people slips away, he feels suddenly prepared." -- referencing Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and Mark Antony's speech -- "But Brutus says he was ambitious And Brutus is an honourable man, so are they all, all honourable men"
"No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be; Am an attendant lord, one that will do. To swell a progress, start a scene or two, advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool. Deferential, glad to be of use, politic, cautious, and meticulous; Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse; At times, indeed, almost ridiculous- almost, at times, the Fool." -- this is a verbatim quote from The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot
"The Fool." -- these are the two words that McCoy pulls out of Eliot's poem; but they are reference to the tarot card, The Fool which is in the Major Arcana of the tarot. The Fool can have many meanings but in most readings it means a fresh start, new beginnings, seeking adventure.
"but he is as unafraid as the shepherds in the meadow when they were heralded by the angel when Christ was born." -- referencing the Bible here again when the Angel Gabriel came to the shepherds in the meadow to herald the birth of Christ -- New Testament.
"genuine though somehow sad." -- again a vague reference to the movie The History Boys; Hector describes Dakin as 'somehow sad' and Dorothy replies with 'you always think they're sad'
"I tried to make a real old man, a real boy, a real sea and a real fish and real sharks. But if I made them good and true enough they would mean many things." -- this is a quote by Hemingway about The Old Man and the Sea; people asked for definitive symbolism and I think this was his way of giving them the finger and saying it is what it is
"'...am I in your dreams? I'd like to know...'" -- Jim is again quoting Wilco here, the song is (Was I) in Your Dreams from their album Being There
"Sweeping out the cobwebs that hold up progress and pulling the curtains and blinds to let the light in." -- half of this is a quote from Marching Bands of Manhattan by Death Cab for Cutie from their album Plans
"Jim tucks himself back into the house as if he belongs there, as if it were made for him." -- misquoting of a line from Gone With the Wind -- This is what Ashley tells Melanie when they're at the Twelve Oaks barbeque before the start of the Civil War
"A man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated." -- this is also from The Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway
In the chapter on philosophy Wittgenstein and Santayana are pretty obviously quoted so I won't bother citing them anymore than to say that I'm quoting Wittgenstein from his book Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.
"They have a lot of time, or maybe they don't. But McCoy likes to think so, and so he pretends." -- misquote of the song My Favourite Chords by The Weakerthans from their album Left & Leaving
"He has shrugged off what it means to be the Fool and instead he is the Stars." -- this is another reference to the Tarot Card - I read this beautiful description of the story of the Star card and about how it became the guiding light for the Fool - how it predicts hope and healing and looking to the future which is why I chose that particular phrase there.
"no man's knowledge can go beyond his experience" - a quote from philosopher John Locke
"and McCoy has found his own way home" - this is actually a bit of a quote from Panic! At the Disco's song Folkin' Around from their album Pretty. Odd.
The number on McCoy's baseball tee is 44, which is actually the number of famed Atlanta Braves player Hank Aaron.
"Listen.
Every beginning has an end, so too with this; it begins with "Listen" and ends with 'he loved me too.'" - this is a play on the beginning of the novel Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut - I thought it was a fitting homage after his recent passing.
"Circumstance being what it is; the world is everything that is the case." - Wittgenstein again with a cameo.
"Yes, yes Jim. You do exist. As certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy.
'Thank God... you'll live and live forever.'" - a quote with some minor tweaks from the famous Yes Virginia There Is A Santa Claus letter.
"If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing." - 1 Corinthians 13:2
There's a brief allusion to Hester Prynne from Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter
"He thinks of the smallest bones: the feet and the inner ear.
It's such an enormous thing to walk and to listen." - Lyrics from the song My Favourite Chords by The Weakerthans
"they are beautiful rose-gold figures blown full of life by writers and directors, and after hours they sit around and talk in whispers and giggled innuendoes, and the ends of many adventures flow through them." - from the short story Crazy Sunday by F. Scott Fitzgerald
"The radio, the open door.
And McCoy is this: A faulty string of blue Christmas lights.
Jim swims through frequencies, he lets that stranger in and McCoy is blinking off and on and off again." - another quote from My Favourite Chords by The Weakerthans
"It's fragmented, by a lot of things, but in the end they find a picture of life that is beautiful, surprising and deep." - the last part is kind of a double word score. There's an allusion in there to a piece by Vonnegut, again from Slaughterhouse Five; he talks about the Tralfamadorians' concept of 'novels' however the double entendre is that "Picture of My Life" is also a song by Jamiroquai which always breaks my heart just a little.
I think in the end I'd like to give a nod to the following for their inspiration: classic literature, general relativity, the shuttle program, the Hubble Space Telescope, the Unified Field Theory (as the Holy Grail of physics), history, the Spitzer Space telescope, String Theory, Mars Phoenix, Brian Greene, indie music, NASA, Michio Kaku, 'D' and 'C' for every rodeo we won, astro-physics, Chandra X-Ray observatory, philosophy, every movie I ever saw, Rovers Spirit and Opportunity, STS-107 & STS-51 & Apollo 1, Georgia summer nights, Cassini Saturn, 85%+ humidity, quantum mechanics, CERN, Saturday nights second row from the top, poetry, romance languages and the deep space network.
I tried to write a real doctor and a real captain and a real space ship and a real Georgia farmhouse, but if I did my job, if I was true to all of them, they would mean many things to many people.