Author: Iain Banks

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• NULL (4)
  • IN: Canal Dreams (1989) Novel, Fiction, Thriller, British
    EPIGRAPH: demurrage n. Rate or amount payable to shipowner by charterer for failure to load or discharge ship within time allowed; similar charge on railway trucks or goods; such detention, delay. [f. OF demo(u)rage (demorer, as DEMUR see — AGE)]
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL
  • IN: Use of Weapons (1990) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Slight Mechanical Destruction' Zakalwe enfranchised;_Those lazy curls of smoke above the city,_Black wormholes in the air of noontime's bright Ground Zero._Did they tell you what you wanted to be told?_Or rain-skinned on a concrete fastness,_Fortress island in the flood;_You walked amongst the smashed machines,_And looked through undrugged eyes_For engines of another war,_And an attrition of the soul and the device._With craft and plane and ship,_And gun and drone and field you played, and_Wrote an allegory of your regress_In other people's tears and blood;_The tentative poetics of your rise_From a mere and shoddy grace._And those who found you,_Took, remade you_('Hey, my boy, it's you and us knife missiles now,_Our lunge and speed and bloody secret: _The way to a man's heart is through his chest! )_- They thought you were their plaything,_Savage child; the throwback from wayback_Expedient because_Utopia spawns few warriors._But you knew your figure cut a cipher_Through every crafted plan,_And playing our game for real_Saw through our plumbing jobs_And wayward glands_To a meaning of your own, in bones._- The catchment of these cultured lives_Was not in flesh,_And what we only knew,_You felt,_With all the marrow of your twisted cells.__ Rasd-Coduresa Diziet Embless Sma da" Marenhide. c/o SC, Year 115 (Earth, Khmer calendar).
    FROM: Marain original, own translation. Unpublished., (1990), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: Complicity (1993) Novel, Fiction, Thriller, British
    EPIGRAPH: n. 1. the fact of being an accomplice, esp. in a criminal act
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL
• Koran (1)
  • IN: Consider Phlebas (1987) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Idolatry is worse than carnage.
    FROM: The Koran, 2: 190, (632), Religious Text, NULL
• T. S. Eliot (2)
  • IN: Consider Phlebas (1987) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Gentile or Jew O you who turn the wheel and look to windward, Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you
    FROM: "The Waste Land', IV, (1922), Poem, UK
  • IN: Look to Windward (2000) Novel, Fiction, Thriller, British
    EPIGRAPH: O you who turn the wheel and look to windward, Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.
    FROM: “The Waste Land”, IV, (1922), Poem, UK