Author: Gilbert Adair

Cites

• Ralph Waldo Emerson (1)
  • IN: The Death of the Author (1992) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge and fox and squirrel and mole. You cannot recall the spoken word, you cannot wipe out the foot-track, you cannot draw up the ladder, so as to leave no inlet or clew.
    FROM: Compensation, (1841), Essay, US
• Jean Cocteau (1)
  • IN: The Death of the Author (1992) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Since these mysteries are beyond us, let us pretend to have devised them.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France