Source: Still Mostly True
Life in the Industry: A Musician's Diary
Reported in his Tennessean's obituary; quoted in "John Seigenthaler dies at 86" http://www.poynter.org/2014/john-seigenthaler-dies-at-86/258597/ by Andrew Beaujon, poynter.org (11 July 2014)
As quoted in Freedomways, p. 232 (Second quarter, 1965).
"Mariana" (1830)
Context: With blackest moss the flower plots
Were thickly crusted, one and all;
The rusted nails fell from the knots
That held the pear to the gable wall.
The broken sheds looked sad and strange:
Unlifted was the clinking latch;
Weeded and worn the ancient thatch
Upon the lonely moated grange.
She only said, "My life is dreary,
He cometh not," she said;
She said, "I am aweary, aweary,
I would that I were dead!'
“For the rest of my life I would be thinking about her. She would always be my biggest WHAT IF.”
Source: The Battle of the Labyrinth
Blue Like Jazz (2003, Nelson Books)
like it was chipping away at at me, at my life.“
Source: Audition (1997), Chapter Five, Yoshikawa Asami
