Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "All Tomorrow's Parties (novel)" in English language version.
In a way, it's a viewpoint joke: Laney and Harwood are the only two people in the world who have this peculiar sort of pathological vision that allows them to see 'OOP! that did it!' Somebody told me when I was in England that there was a Virginia Woolf essay in which she had seriously pinned the beginning of the modern era on a particular weekend in 1911. Q. Really? I was wracking my head reading the book, thinking, 'Well, Marie Curie did research on nuclear material and maybe her husband's death drove her into her research....' A. Well, I knew that people would. But you can't get here from there. Q. So there was some mischief in choosing that.
