Author: Christopher Knight

Cites

• T. S. Eliot (1)
  • IN: Hints & Guesses: William Gaddis's Fiction Of Longing (1997) Novel, American
    EPIGRAPH: For most of us, there is only the unattended Moment, the moment in and out of time, The distraction fit, lost in a shaft of sunlight, The wild thyme unseen, or the winter lightning Or the waterfall, ormusic heard so deeply That is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts.These are only hints and guesses, Hints followed by guesses...
    FROM: The Dry Salvages, (1941), Poem, UK
• Stanley Cavell (1)
  • IN: Hints & Guesses: William Gaddis's Fiction Of Longing (1997) Novel, American
    EPIGRAPH: If calculation and judgement are to answer the question Which way?,perfectionist thinking isaresponse to the Way's being lost.So thinking may present itself as a stopping, and as finding a way back, as if thinking is remembering something
    FROM: Handsome and Unhandsome, (1990), Book, US