- The Denial of Death, Ernest Becker
- Hamlet, William Shakespeare
- “Hit ‘Em Up,” Tupac Shakur*
- silence, e.e. cummings
- Verdi’s Requiem, Guiseppe Verdi*
- Bedroom in ArlesW, Vincent van Gogh
- Check Your Head, Beastie Boys
- Charles BukowskiW
- The Garden of Eden, Ernest Hemingway
- Ode to Joy, Ludwig van Beethoven*
- Presto (Summer) from The Four Seasons, Antonio Vivaldi*
*watch and listen! (especially Ode to Joy…)
“I put eleven, because I could not retract anything, but I also didn’t want to add anything after eleven. So, I think my magpie list has eleven. I hope that doesn’t break any rules. And if it does, please let me re-do it, so I can subtract the one that really should be retracted, which could take several hours of epic self scrutiny.”