Author: Janette Turner Hospital

Cites

• Daniel Defoe (2)
  • IN: Due Preparations for the Plague (2003) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: Death has only given every one of us a jog on the Elbow, or a pull by the sleeve as he passed by, as it were, to bid us get ready against next time he comes this Way.
    FROM: A Journal of the Plague Year, (1722), Novel, UK
• Albert Camus (4)
  • IN: Due Preparations for the Plague (2003) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: In this respect our townsfolk were like everybody else, wrapped up in themselves, in other words, they were humanists, they disbelieved in pestilences. A pestilence isn't a thing made to man's measure, therefore we tell ourselves that pestilence is a mere bogey of the mind, a bad dream that will pass away. But it doesn't always pass away and, from one bad dream to another, it is men who pass away, and the humanists first of all, because they haven't taken their precautions.
    FROM: The Plague, (1947), Novel, France
• William Shakespeare (1)
  • IN: Due Preparations for the Plague (2003) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: Hamlet (to the ghost of his father): Well said, old mole! cans't work in the earth so fast?
    FROM: Hamlet, Act 1, Scene V, (1603), Play, UK
• Adam Phillips (1)
  • IN: Due Preparations for the Plague (2003) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: Nobody chooses his parents, but everyone invents them.
    FROM: The Beast in the Nursery: On Curiosity and Other Appetites, (1998), Book, UK
• Robert Browning (1)
  • IN: Due Preparations for the Plague (2003) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: Fear death? To feel the fog in my throat, the mist in my face ...
    FROM: Prospice, (1864), Poem, UK
• Lewis Carroll (1)
  • IN: Due Preparations for the Plague (2003) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: It vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone.
    FROM: Alice in Wonderland, (1865), Novel, UK
• Bible (1)
  • IN: Due Preparations for the Plague (2003) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: And I only am escaped alone to tell thee ...
    FROM: Bible, Job 1:14, (-165), Bible, NULL
• Jorge Luis Borges (1)
  • IN: Due Preparations for the Plague (2003) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: It's to the other man, to Borges, that things happen ... I live, I let myself live, so that Borges can weave his tales and poems, and those tales and poems are my justification. ... Little by little, I have been surrendering everything to him, even though I have evidence of his stubborn habit of falsification and exaggeration. ... Which of us is writing this page I don't know.
    FROM: Borges and I, (1960), Short story, Argentina
• John Bunyan (1)
  • IN: Due Preparations for the Plague (2003) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: The name of the slough was Despond.
    FROM: Pilgrim's Progress, (1678), Novel, UK
• Graham Swift (1)
  • IN: Due Preparations for the Plague (2003) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: For what is water ... but a liquid form of Nothing? And what are the Fens ... but a landscape which, of all landscapes, most approximates to Nothing? ... Every Fenman suffers now and then the illusion that the land he walks over is not there. ...
    FROM: Waterland, (1983), Novel, UK
• Giovanni Boccaccio (1)
  • IN: Due Preparations for the Plague (2003) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: Wherefore ... I think it would be excellently well done that we depart this place ... and betake ourselves quietly to other places in our thought ... and there take such diversion as we may.
    FROM: Decameron, (1353), Book, Italy
• Jean-Paul Kauffmann (1)
  • IN: Due Preparations for the Plague (2003) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: Captivity is above all a smell, an incommunicable odor of humiliation. ... For imprisonment is a form of erosion. The captive devours himself trying to understand his abandonment.
    FROM: The Black Room of Longwood, (1999), Book, France
• Joseph Campbell (1)
  • IN: Orpheus Lost (2007) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: Orpheus crosses the boundaries not only between life and death and between man and nature, but also between truth and illusion, reality and imagination.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Theodor Adorno (1)
  • IN: Orpheus Lost (2007) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: The language of music is quite different from the language of intentionality. What it has to say is simultaneously revealed and concealed. It is demythologized prayer.
    FROM: Quasi una Fantasia, Essays on Modern Music, (1963), Book, Germany