Author: Christopher Koch

Cites

• W. H. Auden (1)
  • IN: The Memory Room (2007) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: Two friends who met here and embraced are gone, Each to his own mistake; one flashes on To fame and ruin in a rowdy lie, A village torpor holds the other one, Some local wrong where it takes time to die: This empty junction glitters in the sun. So at all quays and crossroad: who can tell These places of decision and farewell To what dishonour all adventure leads, What parting gift could give that friend protection, So orientated his vocation needs The Bad Lands and the sinister direction?
    FROM: The Crossroads, (1941), Poem, US/England