Author: Jesse Ball
Cites
- P. Larkin (1)
- IN: The Village on Horseback: Prose and Verse, 2003-2008 (2011) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Postmen like doctors go from house to house.
FROM: "Aubade", (1977), Poem, UK
- Franz Kafka (1)
- IN: The Village on Horseback: Prose and Verse, 2003-2008 (2011) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: They were given the choice of becoming kings or kings’ messengers. As is the way with children, they all wanted to be messengers. That is why there are only messengers, racing through the world and, since there are no kings, calling out to each other the messages that have now become meaningless.
FROM: The Blue Octavo Notebooks, (1948), Book, Czech Republic
- Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm (1)
- IN: Samedi the Deafness (2007) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Then Chanticleer ran to the garden, and took the garland from the bough where it hung, and brought it to the bride, and then the bride gave him the silken cord, and he took the silken cord to the river, and the river gave him water, and he carried the water to Partlet; but in the mean time she was choked by the great nut, and lay quite dead, and never moved any more.
FROM: Kinder-und Hausmarchen, 1812, (1812), Book, Germany
- NULL (1)
- IN: Samedi the Deafness (2007) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Thus Bacon encouraged the Tumult and as the unquiet crowd follow and adhere to him, he listeth them as they come in upon a large paper, writing their names circular-wise, that their Ringleaders might not be found out.
FROM: British Royal Commission Report, 1676c, (1676), Report, UK
- Kenneth Patchen (1)
- IN: Samedi the Deafness (2007) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: and it doesn’t matter, it doesn’t mean what we think it does
for we two will never lie there
we shall not be there when death reaches out his sparkling hands
FROM: And What with the Blunders, (1968), Poem, US
- Piet Soron (1)
- IN: The Curfew (2011) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: We are born in this cemetery, but must not despair.
FROM: NULL, (1847), NULL, NULL