The first chapter, "Old Father, Old Artificer," refers to line in Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and the second, "A Happy Death," invokes the Camus novel.
第一章 "Old Father, Old Artificer,"（古代の父よ、古代の芸術家よ）はジョイスの『若き芸術家の肖像』の一節から引かれており、第二章 "A Happy Death"（幸福な死）は同題のカミュの小説を元にしている。