A selection of influences: links, works of art, pieces of literature, anything:

• Play by Samuel Beckett
• The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks
• The Fragments of Heraclitus
• The Iliad
• Noctes Atticae by Aulus Gellius
• Atra-ḫasīs
• Weird Explorer
• Poetry in Speech by Egbert J. Bakker
• On Food and Cooking by Harold McGee
• Man Makes Himself by V. Gordon Childe
• Epidaurus cure inscriptions
• Justice by Michael Sandel
• Indo-European Language and Culture by Benjamin Fortson