Texts from missing-persons posters and memorials posted in the vicinity of the ruins of the World Trade Center, Lower Manhattan, Sept. and Oct. 2001; personal reminiscences (principally drawn from interviews appearing in the "Portraits of grief" series in The New York Times); and a randomly chosen list of names of the victims.

Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, performed by the Russian National Orchestra and conducted by Mikhail Pletnev. Also known as the Choral Symphony, this work includes a full chorus and four vocal soloists on the last movement, commonly referred to as Ode to Joy.