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He makes reference to bill bissett, W.S. Merwin and Dick Tracy comics as different sources of inspiration.\nSide A\n0:20 - from \"The Martyrology of St. And\"\n6:00 - from \"The Martyrology Book 2\"\n9:30 - song from \"The Martyrology\"\n11:10 - from \"The Martyrology Book 2, Friends as Footnotes\"\n15:00 - from \"The Martyrology Book 3\"\n25:00 - \"Mid-initial Sequence from Coda, of Martyrology Book 3\"\n28:25 - from \"The Martyrology Book 4\"\n35:00 - from \"The Martyrology Book 5\"\nSide B\n0:20 - \"Two Words: a wedding\" \n2:30 - \"a counting\" from \"The Book of Hours\"\n10:30 - \"Hour 3\" from \"The Book of Hours,\" which he says was written on a ferry between Vancouver and Victoria, BC.\n15:30 - \"Hour 5\" from \"The Book of Hours\" written outside of Saskatchewan on an eventual train from Toronto, ON, to Vancouver, BC.\n19:40 - \"Hour 7\" from \"The Book of Hours\" written in a building outside of Toronto during a storm.\n25:35 - \"Hour 11\" from \"The Book of Hours\"\n29:40 - from \"Translating Translating Apollinaire\"\n39:00 - song or sound poem called \"Flower Eyes\"\n41:20 - \"Song for St. ein\" which Nichol notes is drawn from a question posed by Gertrude Stein\n42:20 - \"You too Nicky\" from \"a counting\" which Nichol notes is drawn from the Japanese poetic form the Uttanikki, used in his Martyrology. \n\n"],"Note":["[]"],"Related_works":["[]"],"_version_":1853670556251979778,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:00.560Z","score":3.3605485}]