Author: Geoff Ryman

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• NULL (2)
  • IN: Lust Or No Harm Done (2001) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: In the bend God created the hen and the education. And the education was without founder, and void; and death was upon the falsehood of the demand. And the sport of God moved upon the falsehood of the wealth. And God said, Let there be limit; and there was limit.
    FROM: A text produced from the Book of Genesis using a method invented by Jean Lescure in which each noun is replaced with the seventh noun following it in a dictionary., (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: The King's Last Song (2006) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: As wealthy as Cambodia
    FROM: Traditional Chinese Saying, (None), Saying, China
• T. S. Eliot (2)
  • IN: Was (1992) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: This is the use of memory: For liberation-not less of love but expanding Of love beyond desire, and so liberation From the future as well as the past. Thus, love of a country Begins as attachment to our own field of action And comes to find that action of little importance Though never indifferent. History may be servitude, History may be freedom.
    FROM: Four Quartets, (1943), Poem, UK
  • IN: The Child Garden (1989) Science Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: That the future is a faded song, a Royal Rose or a lavender spray Of wistful regret for those who are not yet here to regret…
    FROM: Four Quartets, (1943), Poem, UK
• Kamaleswar Bhattacharya (1)
  • IN: The King's Last Song (2006) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Oh you who are wise, may you come more and more to consider all meritorious acts as your own.
    FROM: Sanskrit inscription on the temple of Pre Rup, (None), Inscription, India