Author: James Crumley

Cites

• Billy Lee Brammer (1)
  • IN: The Final Country (2001) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It begins, very much like the other, in an ancient backwash of old dead seas and lambent estuaries…
    FROM: The Gay Place, (1961), Anthology, US
• John Steinbeck (1)
  • IN: The Final Country (2001) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans.
    FROM: Travels with Charley, (1962), Book, US
• James Crumley (1)
  • IN: The Final Country (2001) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There is no Gatlin County in Texas. The country is most barbarously large and final. It is too much country – boondock country – alternately drab and dazzling, spectral and remote. It is so wrongfully muddled and various that it is difficult to conceive of it as all of a piece. Though it begins simply enough, as part of the other.
    FROM: The Final Country, (2001), Book, NULL
• Joseph Conrad (1)
  • IN: One to Count Cadence (1969) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.
    FROM: Heart of Darkness, (1902), Novel, Ukraine/England
• Bible (1)
  • IN: One to Count Cadence (1969) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord: Every man's sword shall be against his brother. Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the Lord.
    FROM: Bible, Ezekiel 38:21,23, (-165), Bible, NULL
• NULL (1)
  • IN: One to Count Cadence (1969) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Fuck 'em all but nine - Six for pallbearers, Two for roadguards, And one to count cadence.
    FROM: Old Army Prayer, (None), [NA], NULL

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• James Crumley (1)
  • IN: The Final Country (2001) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There is no Gatlin County in Texas. The country is most barbarously large and final. It is too much country – boondock country – alternately drab and dazzling, spectral and remote. It is so wrongfully muddled and various that it is difficult to conceive of it as all of a piece. Though it begins simply enough, as part of the other.
    FROM: The Final Country, (2001), Book, NULL