“Meet Jack. He’s a writer looking for inspiration…”

“Beiderbecke’s first phrase in ‘I’m Coming Virginia’ sends chills down my spine and brings tears to my eyes.”—B.H. Haggin

Greece: Plato, Epictetus, Aristotle, Sophocles, Empedocles, Plotinus, Epicurus, Heraclitus (c), Democritus, Socrates, Archimedes

Germany: Gottfried Leibniz, Immanuel Kant, Georg Hegel (c), Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Schelling, Franz Beckenbauer, Karl Jaspers, Karl Schlegel, Ludwig Wittgenstein (Karl Marx), Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger.

Match officials: Confucius (China), St Augustine (Hippo), St Thomas Aquinas (Italy).

“Popp, her voice all of a piece, is pinpoint accurate, venomous without forcing in her famous revenge aria ‘Der Hölle Rache,’ always thrilling as sheer sound.”—Richard Wigmore

“To live in the world of creation—to get into it and stay in it—to frequent it and haunt it—to think intensely and fruitfully—to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation—this is the only thing…”

“The term is not a slur; it is a technical label. A decadent culture offers opportunities chiefly to the satirist.”

“Written when Bush was 18 years old, this eerie gothic tale of lost love and longing cemented her individuality from the very beginning.”—Rebecca Nicholson

Ferocious Chicago blues punctuated by Butterfield’s piercing harmonica and Mike Bloomfield’s searing guitar.

You been cheatin’ on me now, baby.
You know I know it’s true.
But ain’t nobody in the whole wide world
Gonna love you like I do…

Blues harp masterpiece that topped the R&B charts in 1952.

Too many dirty dishes in the sink for just us two
I said, too many dirty dishes in the sink for just us two
You got me wonderin' baby
Who's makin' dirty dishes with you?

The mere idea of you,
The longing here for you.
You’ll never know
How slow the moments go
Until I’m near to you…

Gut-wrenching, soul-baring track from Lennon’s first and best solo album.

Garage rock classic co-written by Iggy Pop and David Bowie on a ukulele, with an opening drumbeat based on the Armed Forces Network call signal.

“If obedience to the will of God be necessary to happiness, and knowledge of his will be necessary to obedience, I know not how he that withholds this knowledge, or delays it, can be said to love his neighbour as himself.”

Curtis Mayfield composition that was a 1975 hit for Pops, Cleotha, Pervis, Yvonne and Mavis.

Inspired, hilarious performance by Charles Levin as a high-strung, short-fused moyel.

A young Taiwanese man has written 700 love letters to his girlfriend over the past two years, trying to get her to marry him.

His persistence finally brought results.

A newspaper reported yesterday the girl has become engaged to the postman who faithfully delivered all the letters.

—UPI

“One day, when dining with some lawyers, he had been more than usually eloquent and full of talk. His perpetual interruptions were resented by one of the guests…”

“I may say that the impossibility of conceiving that this grand and wondrous universe, with our conscious selves, arose through chance, seems to me the chief argument for the existence of God; but whether this is an argument of real value, I have never been able to decide.”