Author: Benjamin Percy

Cites

• Neil Gaiman (1)
  • IN: The Dead Lands (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: All stories are in conversation with other stories.
    FROM: Stories, (2011), Book, UK
• Albert Camus (1)
  • IN: Red Moon (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I have realized that we all have plague, and I have lost my peace.
    FROM: The Plague, (1947), Novel, France
• Blitzen Trapper (1)
  • IN: Red Moon (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: And I lost the taste for judging right from wrong For my flesh had turned to fur Yeah, and my thoughts they surely were Turned to instinct and obedience to God.
    FROM: Furr, (2008), Song, US
• James Dickey (1)
  • IN: The Wilding (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I felt as though I had dipped into some supernatural source of primal energy.
    FROM: Deliverance, (1970), Novel, US
• William Kittredge (1)
  • IN: The Wilding (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: My father, I thought, could have told me things to know, actual as a stone with a code engraved on it, a thing you could put in your pocket and carry around, cool and hard and smooth, that you could touch when you were worried. But such a thing was not in our contract.
    FROM: Who Owns the West?, (1996), Book, US
• Wallace Stegner (1)
  • IN: The Wilding (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Instead of adapting, as we began to do, we have tried to make contry and climate over to fit our existing habits and desires. Instead of listening to the silence, we have shouted into the void. We have tried to make the arid West into what it was never meant to be and cannot remain, the Garden of the World and the home to the multiple millions.
    FROM: Striking the Rock, (1987), Essay, US
• John Milton (1)
  • IN: The Dark Net (2017) Fiction, Mystery Ficon, American
    EPIGRAPH: What if the breath that kindled those grim fires, Awaked, should blow them into sevenfold rage, And plunge us in the flames; or from above Should intermitted vengeance arm again His red right hand to plague us?
    FROM: Paradise Lost, (1667), NULL, UK
• William Gibson (1)
  • IN: The Dark Net (2017) Fiction, Mystery Ficon, American
    EPIGRAPH: Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation ... A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system.
    FROM: Neuromancer, (1984), Novel, US/Canada