During the completion and editing of the novel I made use, amongst others of course, of the following texts: Theodor Adorno: Alienated Masterpiece — the
Missa Solemnis’,
translated by Duncan Smith, in
Telos
28, 1976, and
Quasi una Fantasia — Essays on Modern Music,
Verso, 1992. R.O. Pearse:
Barrier of Spears,
Howard Timmins, 1973. Elsa Pooley:
A Complete Field Guide to Trees of Natal, Zululand and Transkei,
Natal Flora Publications Trust, 1997, and
A Field Guide to Wild Flowers: KwaZulu
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Natal and the Eastern Regions,
Natal Flora Publications Trust, 1998. Ian Player:
Zululand Wilderness, Shadow and Soul,
David Philip, 1997. C.T. Binns:
Dinuzulu — The Death of the House of Chaka,
Longmans, 1968. Donald R. Morris:
The Washing of the Spears — The Rise and Fall of the Zulu Nation,
Jonathan Cape, 1968. Hans Fransen:
Three Centuries of South African Art,
A.D. Donker, 1982. Percy A. Scholes:
The Oxford Companion
to Music,
tenth edition, edited by John Owen Ward, Oxford University Press,, 1993. E.A. Ritter:
Chaka Zulu,
Penguin, 1986. A.R. Wilcox:
The Rock Art of South Africa,
Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1963.
Roberts’Birds of Southern Africa,
The Trustees of John Voelcker Bird Book Fund/Central News Agency, third edition, 1971, and fifth edition, 1985.
Eugene Marais, C.J. Langenhoven, The Bard, Dickens, Burke and Beethoven are no longer within copyright.
Karl reads the conceptions of calendars from Funk and Wagnall’s
New Encyclopedia,
1972.
I relied on and adapted from the technical analyis of William Drabkin in
Beethoven, Missa Solemnis,
Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Karl’s answers during the test on the French Revolution are translated, paraphrased and adapted from J.J. van Jaarsveld,
Geskiedenis vir Standerd Agt,
1973.
Finally, this novel could not have been written without the teaching, criticism, stories, anger, humour, pain, support, friendship and generosity of people who have in divergent ways at different times and to different degrees touched my life in the years of writing. I thank you, from the heart, for the ever fixed mark.