Author: Jake Arnott

Cites

• Ovid (1)
  • IN: The House of Rumour (2012) Fiction, Mystery Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: At the middle of the world, between earth, sea and sky, a point where all three regions of the universe join, there is a place from which all that exists can be seen, no matter how distant, and every voice heard by listening ears. Here Rumour lives, in a high tower she has chosen for herself, with innumerable avenues and thousands of entrances that are never closed. Open night and day, her house is built of sounding bronze that hums and echoes, repeating all it hears. There is no rest within, no silence in any room, but no clamour either, only the murmur of voices, like the sea's waves heard from afar, or the last tremors of thunder after Jupiter has clashed storm-dark clouds together. Crowds occupy the hallways, a fickle throng that come and go with myriad rumours, circulating confused words, fiction mixed with truth. Some fill idle ears with gossip, others pass on stories, each consecutive narrator adding some new detail to the telling. This is the haunt of Credulity, rash Error, empty Joy and unreasoning Fear, impulsive Sedition and Whisperings of Doubtful Origin. Rumour herself spies everything that passes through the heavens, every occurrence on earth and at sea, her scrutiny ranges the universe.
    FROM: Metamorphoses, Book XIII: 39-63, (8), NULL, Italy
• Charles Dickens (1)
  • IN: He Kills Coppers (2001) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: For I ain't, you must know,' said Betty, 'much of a hand at reading writing-hand, though I can read my Bible and most print. And I do love a newspaper. You mightn't think it, but Sloppy is a beautiful reader of a newspaper. He do the Police in different voices.'
    FROM: Our Mutual Friend, (1865), Novel, UK