Notes

Sources

Chicago notes-bibliography. Critical editions and primary witnesses first. Peer-reviewed scholarship second. Reputable journalism third. Quote aggregators are never origin.

  1. 1.

    Rebecca Leung, “NFL Films, Inc.,” CBS News / 60 Minutes II, 26 January 2004. Door

  2. 2.

    Pro Football Hall of Fame, “Notes & Quotes: Ed Sabol,” 27 July 2011. Door

  3. 3.

    CBS News, “Steve Sabol and NFL Films made football America’s game,” YouTube, posted 2013. Jeff Glor profile, shot early 2012. A colleague restates the triad with small changes. A last beat offers “capture someone's heart and you capture their mind,” and says he did not say this. Door

  4. 4.

    Rich Cohen, “They Taught America How to Watch Football,” The Atlantic, October 2012. Method, myth, and the camera as a twelfth man. Door

  5. 5.

    Steve Sabol, interview, CNBC. He restates the triad as what NFL Films does. Selected detail after Cézanne. Heart before head. Door

  6. 6.

    Bryce Hedstrom, “Tell Me a Story…,” 12 November 2011. Already skeptical of a supposed Indian proverb circulating on storytelling sites. Door

  7. 7.

    Frederic C. Bartlett, Remembering: A Study in Experimental and Social Psychology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1932). “War of the Ghosts” taken from Franz Boas, Kathlamet Texts (1901).

  8. 8.

    Franz Boas, Kathlamet Texts, Bulletin 26 of the Bureau of American Ethnology (Washington: GPO, 1901).

  9. 9.

    Melanie C. Green and Timothy C. Brock, “The Role of Transportation in the Persuasiveness of Public Narratives,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 79, no. 5 (2000): 701–721.

  10. 10.

    Richard J. Gerrig, Experiencing Narrative Worlds (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993).

  11. 11.

    Elizabeth F. Loftus and John C. Palmer, “Reconstruction of Automobile Destruction,” Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior 13 (1974): 585–589.

  12. 12.

    Elizabeth F. Loftus and Jacqueline E. Pickrell, “The Formation of False Memories,” Psychiatric Annals 25 (1995): 720–725.

  13. 13.

    Andrew R. George, The Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic: Introduction, Critical Edition and Cuneiform Texts (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003).

  14. 14.

    George Smith, lecture to the Society of Biblical Archaeology, 3 December 1872, on an Assyrian flood narrative from the Kuyunjik (Nineveh) tablets. Later catalogued among British Museum K-series tablets, including K.3375.

  15. 15.

    Albert B. Lord, The Singer of Tales (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1960).

  16. 16.

    Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature, Harvard University. Door

  17. 17.

    @42Constellation, 18 September 2026. The remembered triad posted as a line loved enough to put back on Moxie. Cipher correspondences recorded in the same sitting. Lived correspondence, not origin. Door

  18. 18.

    @42Constellation, 18 September 2026. When 42 keeps becoming a vessel for meaning across minds separated by centuries. Neighboring question. Door: The 42 Index. Door

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