Author: Ian Sansom
Cites
- William Morris (1)
- IN: Essex Poison (2017) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: I come not from Heaven but from Essex.
FROM: A Dream of John Ball, (1888), Novel, UK
- Bible (1)
- IN: Death in Devon (2015) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, netiher shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there. And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.
FROM: Bible, Isaiah 13:19-22, (-165), Bible, NULL
- Daniel Defoe (1)
- IN: Westmorland Alone (2016) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Here we entered Westmoreland, a country eminent ony for being the wildest, most barren and frightful of any that I have passed over in England.
FROM: A Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain, (1724), Book, UK
- Joyce Sutphen (1)
- IN: The Bad Book Affair (2009) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: I spend part of my childhood waiting
for the Stearns County Bookmobile.
When it comes to town, it makes a
U-turn in front of the grade school and
glides into its place under the elms.
It is a natural wonder of late
afternoon. I try to imagine Dante,
William Faulkner, and Emily Dickinson
traveling down a double lane highway
together, country-western on the radio.
Even when it arrives, I have to wait.
The librarian is busy, getting out
the inky pad and the lined cards.
I pace back and forth in the line,
hungry for the fresh bread of the page,
Because I need something that will tell me
what I am; I want to catch a book,
clear as a one-way ticket, to Paris,
to London, to anywhere.
FROM: Bookmobile, (2000), Poem, US