Author: John Burdett

Cites

• Jorge Luis Borges (4)
  • IN: Bangkok Tattoo (2005) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Israelites, Christians and Muslims profess immortality, but the veneration they render this world proves they believe only in it, since they destine all other worlds, in infinite number, to be its reward or punishment. The wheel of certain Hindustani religions seems more reasonable to me.
    FROM: The Immortal, (1947), Short story, Argentina
  • IN: Bangkok 8 (2003) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Like all the men of Babylon, I have been proconsul; like all, I have been a slave. I have known omnipotence, ignominy, imprisonment. Look here-my right hand has no index finger.
    FROM: The Lottery in Babylon, (1941), Short story, Argentina
• Friedrich Nietzsche (2)
  • IN: Bangkok Tattoo (2005) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: What? Could perhaps, in spite of all “modern ideas” and prejudices of democratic taste, the victory of optimism, the achieved predominance of reason, practical and theoretical utilitarianism, like democracy itself, its contemporary-be a symptom of failing strength, of approaching old age, of physiological exhaustion?… what is the meaning of-morality?… all things move in a double cycle: everything which we now call culture, education, civilization will at some stage have to appear before the infallible judge, Dionysus.
    FROM: The Birth of Tragedy, (1872), Book, Germany
• Bob Dylan (2)
  • IN: Bangkok Haunts (2007) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: You cast your spell and I went under / I find it so difficult to leave
    FROM: "Tonight I'll be Staying Here with You", (1969), Song, US
  • IN: The Godfather of Kathmandu (2010) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: There must be some way out of here.
    FROM: "All Along the Watchtower", (1968), Song, US
• Jean Genet (1)
  • IN: Bangkok Haunts (2007) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The Eternal passed by in the form of a pimp. The prattle ceased.
    FROM: Our Lady of the Flowers, (1943), novel, France
• The Gautama Buddha (1)
  • IN: Bangkok Haunts (2007) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The clinging consciousness is very deep and subtle; / All potentials are like a torrential flow. / I do not explain this to the ignorant, / For fear they will get the idea it is self.
    FROM: The Sandhinirmochana Sutra, (300), Religious text, Nepal
• Confucius (2)
  • IN: Bangkok 8 (2003) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: In the whole world there is no one who does not welcome it like reason.
    FROM: Confucius, talking about jade, (None), Conversation, China
• The Buddha (1)
  • IN: The Bangkok Asset (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Phenomena have no signs.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Gautama (1)
  • IN: The Godfather of Kathmandu (2010) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Few are there amongst men who go to the Farther Shore; the rest of this mankind only run about on the bank.
    FROM: The Dhammapada, (None), Religious Text, NULL
• San Juan de la Cruz (1)
  • IN: The Godfather of Kathmandu (2010) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The third kind of suffering and pain that the soul endures in this state results from the fact that two other extremes meet here in one, namely, the Divine and the human.
    FROM: The Dark Night of the Soul, (1585), Poem, Spain
• Ninon L’Enclos (1)
  • IN: Best of Asian Erotica, Volume 1 (2011) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: “Shall I tell you what makes love so dangerous? T’is the too high idea we are apt to form of it."
    FROM: Ninon L’Enclos, 17th-century courtesan, (1650), NULL, France
• Rudyard Kipling (1)
  • IN: The Last Six Million Seconds (1996) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: An’ the dawn comes up like thunder outer China ’crost the Bay!
    FROM: Mandalay, (1890), Poem, UK
• NULL (1)
  • IN: Vulture Peak (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: What you do to yourself, you do to the world. What you do to the world, you do to yourself.
    FROM: Buddhist proverb, (None), Proverb, NULL
• Janet Ratcliffe-Richards (1)
  • IN: Vulture Peak (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: If a living donor can do without an organ, why shouldn't the donor profit and medical science benefit?
    FROM: Lancet, (1998), NULL, UK