Author: Ben H. Winters

Cites

• Ulrich Köehler (1)
  • IN: Countdown City (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Nahui Olin was not the first sun. According to the Aztecs and their neighbors, there have been four previous suns. Each of them presided over a world that was destroyed in a cosmic catastrophe. These catastrophes did not always result in mass extinction; the results were sometimes transformative, i.e. of humans into animals.
    FROM: Meteors and Comets in Ancient Mexico, (2002), Book, NULL
• NULL (1)
  • IN: Underground Airlines (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: No future amendment of the Constitution shall affect the five preceding articles...and no amendment shall be made to the Constitution which shall authorize or give to Congress any power to abolish or interfere with slavery in any of the States by whose laws it is, or may be, allowed or permitted.
    FROM: Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, (1919), NULL, US
• A. Alvarez (1)
  • IN: The Last Policeman (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Even for a Voltaire, the supreme rationalist, a purely rational suicide was something prodigous and slightly grotesque, like a comet or a two-headed sheep.
    FROM: The Savage God: A Study of Suicide, (1971), Book, UK
• Bob Dylan (2)
  • IN: The Last Policeman (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: And there's a slow, slow train comin', up around the bend.
    FROM: Slow Train, (1979), Song, US
  • IN: World of Trouble (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: And I won't let go and I can't let go I won't let go and I can't let go I won't let go and I can't let go no more
    FROM: Solid Rock, (1980), Song, US
• Ulrich Kohler (1)
  • IN: Countdown City (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Nahui Olin was not the first sun. According to the Aztecs and their neighbors, there have been four previous suns. Each of them presided over a world that was destroyed in a cosmic catastrophe. These catastrophes did not always result in mass extinction; the results were sometimes transformative, i.e., of humans into animals.
    FROM: Meteors and Comets in Ancient Mexico, (2002), Book, Germany
• Elvis Costello (1)
  • IN: Countdown City (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Forever doesn't mean forever anymore I said 'forever' but it doesn't look like I'm gonna be around much anymore.
    FROM: Riot Act, (1980), Song, UK