Here Bird performs, "The Twistable,Turnable Man Returns."

VOA: special.2010.06.04

Haze drove on, leaving the man who has helped him: "The blinding white cloud had turned into a bird with long, thin wings and was disappearing in the opposite direction."

海斯继续开车，离开了那位帮助他的男人：,那朵亮白的云转变成了一只有这长而瘦的羽翼的小鸟的形状,消失在另一个方向“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

"I think the one story that inspired this book was meeting a wonderful man called Don Mertin in New Zealand and he explaining to me how he had saved a species of bird called a Black Robin when there were just seven individuals left in the world of which only two were female and only one of whom was fertile."

VOA: special.2009.11.18