PART ONE
1) The Thomas M. Disch Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
2) An Interview with Thomas Disch by Scott Edelman, Last Wave, Winter 1986 (Full interview can be accessed via this think: https://web.archive.org/web/20150915174743/http://www.ukjarry1.talktalk.net/last.htm (retrieved March 6, 2026)
3) Ibid
4) I Want That!: How We All Became Shoppers by Thomas Hine (Harper Collins, 2002) pg. x
5) Air-conditioning America: Engineers and the Controlled Environments, 1900-1960 by Gail Cooper (The John Hopkins University Press, 1998) pg. 178
6) Cool: How Air Conditioning Changed Everything by Salvatore Basile (Fordham University Press, 2014) pg. 223
7) After Cooling: On Freon, Global Warming, and the Terrible Cost of Comfort by Eric Dean Wilson (Simon & Schuster, 2021) pg. 204
8) Ibid, pg. 213
9) Losing Our Cool: Uncomfortable Truths About Our Air-Conditioned World (and Finding New Ways to Get Through the Summer) by Stan Cox (New Press, 2010) pg. 117
10) Cool: How Air Conditioning Changed Everything by Salvatore Basile (Fordham University Press, 2014) pg. 237
11) Losing Our Cool: Uncomfortable Truths About Our Air-Conditioned World (and Finding New Ways to Get Through the Summer) by Stan Cox (New Press, 2010) pg. 123
12) Across the Wounded Galaxies: Interviews with Contemporary American Science Fiction Writers by Larry McCaffery (University of Illinois Press, 1990) pg. 111
13) It Seemed Like Nothing Happened: The Tragedy and Promise of America in the 1970s by Peter N. Carroll (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1982) pg. 242-243
14) The Thomas M. Disch Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
15) The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars (Doubleday, 1988) pg. 4
16) Ibid, pg. 8
17) AMAZING STORIES (October, 1992) pg. 9
18) The Thomas M. Disch Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
19) Thomas M. Disch 1940- , pg. 8, taken from a printed proof from The Thomas M. Disch Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
20) The Early Science Fiction Stories of Thomas M. Disch (Gregg Press, 1977) pg. xi
21) White Fang Goes Dingo and Other Funny S.F. Stories (Arrow Books, 1971) pg. 170
22) The Thomas M. Disch Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
23) The Businessman: A Tale of Terror (Harper & Row, 1984), pg. 284
24) Thomas M. Disch 1940- , pg. 18, taken from a printed proof from The Thomas M. Disch Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
25) The Thomas M. Disch Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
26) Ibid
27) Ibid
28) The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars (Doubleday, 1988) pgs. 8-9
29) The Sub: A Tale of Witchcraft (Alfred A. Knopf, 1999) pg. 236
30) Thomas M. Disch 1940- , pgs. 1-2, taken from a printed proof from The Thomas M. Disch Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
31) AMAZING STORIES (October, 1992) pg. 8
32) Ibid, pgs. 8-9
33) https://patents.google.com/patent/US3393673A/en (retrieved March 6, 2026)
34) The Thomas M. Disch Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
35) AMAZING STORIES (November, 1992) pg. 67
36) The Thomas M. Disch Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
37) Ibid
38) The New York Times, Jay Monroe, 80, Engineer Who Invented Tensor Lamp, Dies by Douglas Martin (July 2, 2007) Retrieved December 4, 2024
39) The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars (Doubleday, 1988) pg. 58
40) The Thomas M. Disch Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
41) The Thomas M. Disch Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
42) Ibid
43) The Word of God: or, Holy Writ Rewritten (Tachyon Publications, 2008) pg. 10
44) The Portable Radio in American Life by Michael Brian Schiffer (The University of Arizona Press, 1991) pg. 195
45) AMAZING STORIES (October, 1992) pg. 9
46) Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (Books of Wonder, Marrow, 1866/1992) pg. 27
47) The Thomas M. Disch Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
48) Ibid
49) Artifacts from Modern America by Helen Sheumaker (Greenwood, 2018) pg. 178
50) The Thomas M. Disch Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
PART TWO
51) The Thomas M. Disch Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
52) Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (Books of Wonder, Marrow, 1866/1992) pgs. 5 and 33
53) Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll (Books of Wonder, Marrow, 1872/1993 pgs. 1, 13, 24, 49, and 125
54) The Thomas M. Disch Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
55) Ibid
56) The Thomas M. Disch Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
57) Ibid
58) Ibid
59) Thomas M. Disch 1940- , pgs. 8-9, taken from a printed proof from The Thomas M. Disch Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
60) Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (Books of Wonder, Marrow, 1866/1992) pgs. 9-10
61) The Man Who Had No Idea (Bantam Books, 1982) pg. 185
62) AMAZING STORIES (November, 1993) pg. 55
63) The Voyage of the Proteus (Subterranean Press, 2007) pg. 84
64) The Thomas M. Disch Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
65) One Hundred and Two H-Bombs (Berkley Medallion, 1971) pg. 94
66) On Wings of Song (Carroll & Graf, 1988) pg. 29
67) Clara Reeve (Alfred A. Knof, 1975) pg. 156
68) The Magazine of Fantasy & Science-Fiction (October, 1989) pg. 208
69) The Thomas M. Disch Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
70) Eternity (1973) Full interview can be accessed here:
(https://web.archive.org/web/20120625140352/http://www.ukjarry1.talktalk.net/et.htm)
71) Thomas M. Disch 1940- , pgs. 9-10, taken from a printed proof from The Thomas M. Disch Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
72) Ibid pg. 10
73) Ibid
74) Clara Reeve (Alfred A. Knof, 1975) pg. 42
75) Thomas M. Disch 1940- , pgs. 8-9, taken from a printed proof from The Thomas M. Disch Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
76) (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ostensibly)
77) The Thomas M. Disch Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
78) Clara Reeve (Alfred A. Knof, 1975) pg. 183
79) AMAZING STORIES (November, 1992) pg. 66
80) Ibid pg. 67
81) Ibid
82) Ibid
83) (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/doggerel)
84) (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sestinas)
85) (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rondeaux)
86) (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/villanelles)
87) The Thomas M. Disch Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
88) Ibid
89) Ibid
90) Ibid
91) AMAZING STORIES (October, 1992) pgs. 11-12
92) An Interview with Thomas Disch by Scott Edelman, Last Wave (Winter 1986) Full interview can be accessed via this think:
(https://www.scottedelman.com/2015/03/01/unearthing-my-1984-interview-with-thomas-m-disch/)
93) Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll (Books of Wonder, Marrow, 1872/1993) pgs. 28-33
94) Thomas M. Disch 1940- , pgs. 13, taken from a printed proof from The Thomas M. Disch Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
95) Ibid pg. 14
96) Clara Reeve (Alfred A. Knof, 1975) pg. 110
97) The Thomas M. Disch Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
98) The Man Who Had No Idea (Bantam Books, 1982) pg. 64
99) AMAZING STORIES (October, 1992) pg. 97
100) The Thomas M. Disch Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
101) (https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/70s/1976/Billboard%201976-09-11.pdf) pg. 31
PART THREE
102) The Dreams Our Stuff is Made of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World (The Free Press, 1998) pg. 186
103) The Thomas M. Disch Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
104) Fundamental Disch (Bantam Books, 1980) pg. 378
105) Ibid
106) Ibid, pg. 380
107) On Wings of Song (Carroll & Graf, 1988) pg. 198
108) The Wall of America (Tachyon, 2008) pg. 103
109) The Man Who Had No Idea (Bantam Books, 1982) pg. 67
110) The Priest (Alfred A. Knopf, 1995) pg. 168
111) The Thomas M. Disch Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
112) Ibid
113) One Hundred and Two H-Bombs (Berkley Medallion, 1971) pg. 91
114) Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (Books of Wonder, Marrow, 1866/1992) pg. 101
115) AMAZING STORIES (October 1992) pg. 11
116) The Priest (Alfred A. Knopf, 1995) pg. 144
117) The Man Who Had No Idea (Bantam Books, 1982) pg. 157
118) One Hundred and Two H-Bombs (Berkley Medallion, 1971) pg. 147
119) The Word of God: or, Holy Writ Rewritten (Tachyon Publications, 2008) pgs. 14-15
120) Ibid pgs. 27, 91, 97-98, 164
121) https://radiofidelity.com/does-lightning-interfere-with-radio-waves/
122) On Wings of Song (Carroll & Graf, 1988) pg. 117
123) Interzone Magazine (November 2001) pg. 19
124) https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/commiserating
125) Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll (Books of Wonder, Marrow, 1872/1993) pg. 91
126) The Thomas M. Disch Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
127) The Dreams Our Stuff is Made of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World (The Free Press, 1998) pg. 204
128) The Thomas M. Disch Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
129) Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll (Books of Wonder, Marrow, 1872/1993) pg. 94
130) The Word of God: or, Holy Writ Rewritten (Tachyon Publications, 2008) pg. 16
131) TriQuarterly 49 (Fall, 1980) pg. 244
132) The Thomas M. Disch Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
133) The Word of God: or, Holy Writ Rewritten (Tachyon Publications, 2008) pg. 102