Author: James Burke

Cites

• Bible (3)
  • IN: The Tin Roof Blowdown (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Before the mountains were settled, Before the hills, I was brought forth; While as yet He had not made the earth or the fields, Or the primal dust of the world. When He prepared the heavens, I was there, When He drew a circle on the face of the deep, When He established the clouds above, When He strengthened the fountains of the deep, When He assigned to the sea its limit, So that the waters would not transgress His command, When He marked out the foundations of the earth, Then I was beside Him as a master craftsman; And I was daily His delight, Rejoicing always before Him, Rejoicing in his inhabited world, And my delight was with the sons of men.
    FROM: Bible, Proverbs 8:24-31, (-165), Bible, NULL
  • IN: Rain Gods (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: And he called to him his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every infirmity… These twelve Jesus sent out, charging them, “Go nowhere among the Gentiles, and enter no town of the Samaritans, but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. And preach as you go, saying, ‘The kingdom of heaven is at hand.’”
    FROM: Bible, MATTHEW 10:1-7, (100), Bible, NULL
  • IN: Pegasus Descending (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.
    FROM: Bible, John 16:12, (100), Bible, NULL
• Solomon Northup (1)
  • IN: Burning Angel (1995) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Commending myself to the God of the oppressed, I bowed my head upon my fettered hands, and wept bitterly.
    FROM: From Twelve Years a Slave, an autobiographical account by Solomon Northup, (1853), Autobiography, US
• Sam “Lightnin’” Hopkins (1)
  • IN: The Lost Get-Back Boogie (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: You know, the blues is something that’s hard to get acquainted with. It’s just like death. Now, I tell you about the blues. The blues dwells with you every day and everywhere. See, you can have the blues about that you’re broke. You can have the blues about your girl is gone. The blues comes so many different ways until it’s kind of hard to explain. But whenever you get a sad feeling, you can tell the whole round world you got nothing but the blues.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US