Author: Caite Dolan-Leach

Cites

• Georges Perec (1)
  • IN: Dead Letters (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: From this, one can make a deduction which is quite certainly the ultimate truth of jigsaw puzzles: despite appearances, puzzling is not a solitary game: every move the puzzler makes, the puzzlemaker has made before; every peice the puzzler picks up, and picks up again, and studies and strokes, every combination he tries, and tries a second time, every blunder and every insight, each hope and each discouragement have all been designed, calculated, and decided by the other.
    FROM: Life: A User's Manual, (1978), Novel, France
• Crebillon (1)
  • IN: Dead Letters (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Un dessein si funeste, s'il n'est digne d'Atree, est digne de Thyeste. (Atreus might not stoop to such a gruesome plot, but Thyeste sure would.
    FROM: Atree et Thyeste, quoted by Edgar Allan Poe, (1707), NULL, France