Author: David Malouf

Cites

• Pascal (1)
  • IN: The Complete Stories (2007) Fiction, Anthology, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: When I consider the brevity of my life, swallowed up as it is in the eternity that precedes and will follow it, the tiny space I occupy and what is visible to me, cast as I am into a vast infinity of spaces that I know nothing of and which know nothing of me, I take fright, I am stunned to find myself here rather than elsewhere, for there is no reason why it should be here rather than there, and now rather than then. Who set me here? By whose order adn under what guiding destiny was this time, this place assigned to me?
    FROM: Pensees, (1670), Book, France
• William Blake (1)
  • IN: Remembering Babylon (1993) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Whether this is Jerusalem or Babylon we know not.
    FROM: The Four Zoas, (1893), Book, UK
• John Clare (1)
  • IN: Remembering Babylon (1993) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Strange shapes and void afflict the soul And shadow to the eye A world on fire while smoke seas roll And lightnings rend the sky The moon shall be as blood the sun Black as a thunder cloud The stars shall turn to blue and dun And heaven by darkness bowed Shall make sun dark and give no day When stars like skys shall be When heaven and earth shall pass away Wilt thou Remember me
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL