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    SCIENTISTS WHO CARRIED OUT : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/ science-environment-10819027.
    ‘ BEYOND A CERTAIN POINT ’: quoted in Roberto Calasso, K. (New York: Knopf, 2005). This translation suited me better than Michael Hofmann’s in Zürau Aphorisms (New York: Schocken, 2006).
    ‘ FEEL…THAT THE ZONE ’: Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time.
    ‘ ONCE I WAS A MAN ’: Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception (London: Routledge Classics, 2002,).
    NOT A SET OF EVENTS: adapted from David Abram, The Spell of the Sensuous (New York: Vintage, 1997). I am indebted to Abram more generally for my discussion of the Zone and the sudden gust of wind in this section.
    ‘ HAS NO MEANING IN ITSELF ’: Milan Kundera, Immortality (London: Faber & Faber, 1991).
    ‘ SHOULD DOUBT…THE EXISTENCE ’: Tarkovsky, interview with Guerra at nostalghia.com .
    ‘ THE IMAGE BECOMES ’: Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time.
    ‘ OVER AND OVER ’: Andrei Tarkovsky Interviews, edited by John Gianvito.
    ‘ A LIFE OF WHICH THE KEYNOTE ’: William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience.
    ‘ SUDDENLY ONE OF ’: Vladimir Sharun, interview at nostalghia .com.
    ‘ TOTAL DISASTER ’: Tarkovsky, Time Within Time.
    ‘ A RIGID IDEA ’: Evgeny Tsymbal in Dunne, Tarkovsky.
    ‘ EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE DIFFERENT ’: Tarkovsky, Time Within Time.
    ‘ HE COULD NOT UNDERSTAND ’: Vladimir Sharun, interview at nostalghia.com.
    ‘ KALASHNIKOV REFUSED’ and ‘ HE DIDN’T HAVE THE GUTS ’: Tarkovsky, Time Within Time.
    ‘ ALMOST VISUALLY IDENTICAL ’: Maria Chugunova, quoted by Tsymbal, in Dunne, Tarkovsky.
    ‘ LACKED SIMPLICITY ’: Ibid.
    ‘ LIGHTWEIGHT SHALLOW PEOPLE ’: Tarkovsky, Time Within Time.
    ‘ FOR BEHAVING LIKE A BASTARD ’: Ibid.
    ‘ BUT AT THE COST ’: from Rerberg and Tarkovsky: Reverse Side of ‘Stalker’ (film).
    ‘ A CORPSE ’: Tarkovsky, Time Within Time.
    ‘ INVINCIBLE ’: Andrei Tarkovsky Interviews, edited by John Gianvito.
    ‘ YOU ARE DISTINGUISHED ’: Alexander Galich, quoted in Lesley Chamberlain, Motherland (London: Atlantic, 2004).
    ‘ THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT ’: Robert Bird, Andrei Tarkovsky.
    ‘ THERE REALLY IS ’: Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Roadside Picnic (London: Gollancz, 2007; translation first published 1977).
    ‘ UP THE RIVER ’: Vladimir Sharun, interview at nostalghia.com .
    ‘ TO EVERY NATURAL ’: Wordsworth, from The Prelude: A Parallel Text, edited by J. C. Maxwell (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972).
    ‘ I SEE AROUND ME ’: The Selected Poetry and Prose of Wordsworth, edited by Geoffrey Hartman (New York: Signet Classics, 1970).
    ‘ THE THEN IS CONSTANTLY REPEATED ’: Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain (New York: Vintage, 1996).
    ‘ SOME KIND OF DRUG DEALER ’: Tarkovsky, Time Within Time.
    ‘ WHERE ART IS DYING ’: Milan Kundera, Encounter (London: Faber & Faber, 2010).
    ‘ IF AT THE END ’: quoted in Robert Bird, Andrei Tarkovsky.
    ‘ EVERYTHING ON EARTH ’: Ibid.
    ‘ PERHAPS WE ARE HERE ’: for German original, see The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, edited by Stephen Mitchell. Translation by Shaun Whiteside.
    ‘ CAME TO FEEL ’: Lesley Chamberlain, Motherland.
    ‘ IN THE RIVER ’: Andrei Tarkovsky Interviews, edited by John Gianvito.
    NOTHING ON THE WALLS BUT DAMP : adapted from Wislawa Szymborska’s poem ‘Cave’, in Poems New and Collected 1957-1997 (London: Faber & Faber, 1999).
    ‘ UTTERLY NEW TERRAIN ’: Wim Wenders, The Act of Seeing.
    ‘ THE DARKNESS GREW LOUD ’: William Langewiesche, American Ground: The Unbuilding of the World Trade Center (New York: North Point, 2002).
    ‘ SHOOTING IS GOING OUT ’: Robert Bresson, Notes on the Cinematographer.
    ‘ I SAW TARKOVSKY’S STALKER ’: Tilda Swinton, http://www.movie line.com/2009/05/tilda-swinton-i-think-youve-got-the-wrong-person.php.
    ‘ THERE OUGHT TO BE IN PARIS ’: Robert Bresson, Notes on the Cinematographe.
    ‘ FROM WHERE ELSE ’: John Berger, Keeping a Rendezvous