This is a list of the principal works that Charlotte alludes to/references/pastiches/criticizes/riffs on, because she has seen/is reading/has read/wishes she had read them.
Boss, Valentin — Milton and the Rise of Russian Satanism. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, [1991] 2011.
• Cleo’s Braid
Curtis, Adam, writer/director — HyperNormalisation. BBC, 2016.
• Skin Deep
Gödel, Kurt — On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica And Related Systems. London: Dover Publications, [1931] 1992.
• Unordered List
Goffman, Erving — The Presentation of the Self in Everyday Life. New York: Doubleday, 1956.
• Aloft and Aloof
Ellis, Bret Easton — Glamorama. New York: Vintage, 1998.
• The Meringue Wasteland
Hofstadter, Douglas R. — I Am A Strange Loop. New York: Basic Books, 2007.
• Unordered List
Holy Bible, King James Version — Psalm 96 — https://www.bible.com/bible/1/PSA.96.KJV
• Aloft and Aloof
James, Henry — The Ambassadors. London: Penguin Classics, [1903] 1986.
• Machine Learning
Jansson, Tove — Comet in Moominland. New York: Square Fish, [1946] 2010.
• Unordered List
Joyce, James — Ulysses. New York: Vintage International, [1922] 1990.
• Modernist Self-Sabotage on OKCupid
Lacarrière, Jacques — Les Gnostiques. Paris: Gallimard, 1973.
• Machine Learning
Lakoff, George. — Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.
• Unordered List
Lawrence, D.H. — The Complete Poems of D.H. Lawrence. London: Wordsworth, 1998.
• Machine Learning
Lem, Stanislaw — Solaris. New York: Mariner, [1961] 2002.
• Solaris
Lordon, Frédéric — Capitalisme, désir et servitude. Paris: La Fabrique, 2010.
• Marx, Spinoza, and the Ninjas
→ I’m afraid Asa is appropriating Lordon’s thesis without attribution to impress Charlotte…
Marx, Karl — Capital. Volume 1: A Critique of Political Economy. London: Penguin Classics, [1867] 1992.
• Marx, Spinoza, and the Ninjas
Minkowski, Ernest Leon — The Accidental Babylon. New York: Astounding Press, 1982.
• The Accidental Babylon
Nolan, Jonathan, and Lisa Joy, creators — Westworld. Kilter Films and HBO Entertainment, 2016.
• Machine Learning
Pound, Ezra — “Ancient Music” in Blast 2, London, July 1915. https://allpoetry.com/Ancient-Music-(Parody)
• Aloft and Aloof
Sennett, Richard — The Fall of Public Man. New York: Knopf, 1977.
• Skin Deep
Shakespeare, William — “As You Like It” in The Works of William Shakespeare Gathered into One Volume. London: The Shakespeare Head Press, [1623] 1947.
• Aloft and Aloof
Wittgenstein, Ludwig — Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. Oxford: Benediction Classics, [1922] 2017.
• Unordered List
