Author: B. Catling

Cites

• Eugen Herrigel (1)
  • IN: The Vorrh (2007) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I cannot think back to those days without recalling, over and over again, how difficult I found it in the beginning to get my breathing to work out right. Though I breathed in technically the right way, whenever I tried to keep my arm and shoulder muscles relaxed while drawing the bow, the muscles of my legs stiffened all the more violently, as though mt life depended on a firm foothold and secure stance, and as though, like Antaeus, I had strength from the ground.
    FROM: Zen in the Art of Archery, (1948), Book, Germany
• Leo Frobenius (1)
  • IN: The Vorrh (2007) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The vitality of the demonic -- what is guided by genius in the most literal sense --dies of course with the renunciation of a limitless lebensraum (formation of colonies).
    FROM: Paideuma, Umrisse einer Kultur-und Seelenlehre, (1921), Book, Germany
• Joseph Conrad (1)
  • IN: The Vorrh (2007) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Near the same tree two more bundles of acute angles sat with their legs drawn up. One, with his chin propped on his knees, stared at nothing, in an intolerable and appalling manner: his brother phantom rested its forehead, as if overcome with a great weariness; and all about others were scattered in every pose of contorted collapse, as in some picture of a massacre or a pestilence. While I stood horror-struck, one of these creatures rose to his hands and knees, and went off on all-fours towards the river to drink. He lapped out of his hand, then sat up in the sunlight, crossing his shins in front of him, and after a time let his woolly head fall on his breastbone.
    FROM: Heart of Darkness, (1902), Novel, UK