Author: Ciaran Carson

Cites

• Walter Benjamin (1)
  • IN: Belfast Confetti (1989) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Not to find one's way about in a city is of little interest... But to lose one's way in a city, as one loses one's way in a forest, requires practice... I learned his art late in life: it fulfilled the dreams whose first traces were the labyrinths on the blotters of my exercise books.
    FROM: A Berlin Childhood Around the Turn of the Century, (1950), Book, Germany
• NULL (1)
  • IN: Belfast Confetti (1989) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: ...that the Mastive dogs belonginge to Butchers, Tanners and other inhabitants dwelling in this Corporation and the suburbs and ffields thereunto belonginge, have Barbarously ffallen upon horses in Carrs, upon the Street, and also horses out of carrs, And have violently Torne and abused them, That some of them have been in hazard to die, And also ffallen upon several cattell bothe upon the Streets and in the ffields. Inso much that serverall catell are mightily abused, and some of them killed to the great loss of many of the poore Inhabitants of this Corporacon. And also that the said Dogs have ffallen upon sverall mena nd boyes ipon the Streets and Lanes of this Towne and suburbs thereunto belonginge, and have pult them to the Ground, Torne their cloathes and Torne some of their fleshe and eaten the same Insomuch that many Inhabitants ffeare their lives to walk the streets or laines either by night or day for the said dogs and Bitches...
    FROM: Ordinance of the Corporation of Belfast, (1678), NULL, NULL
• Karel van Mander (1)
  • IN: Shamrock Tea (2001) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: He divided a panel into a hundred squares and marked them down, with numbered figures, in a small book, then painted these squares with various colours, various shades, greens, yellows, blues, flesh tints and other mixtures, giving the shaded tint of each one in so far as he could, and writing it down in the little book as aforesaid.
    FROM: Het Schilder-Boeck, (1604), Book, Netherlands
• Ludwig Wittgenstein (1)
  • IN: Shamrock Tea (2001) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: The world is everything that is the case.
    FROM: Tractatus Logico-philosophicus, (1921), Book, Austria