Author: Julio Cortázar

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• NULL (1)
  • IN: Hopscotch (1963) Novel, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: And moved by the hope of being of particular help to youth, and of contributing to the reform of manners in general, I have put together this collection of maxims, counsels, and precepts which are the basis of those universal morals that are so much a part of the spiritual and temporal happiness of men of all ages, states, and conditions, and of the prosperity and orderliness not only of the civil and Christian republic in which we live, but of any other republic or government that the most thoughtful and serious philosphers of the world might wish to contrive.
    FROM: Spirit of the Bible and Universal Morals, Drawn from the Old and New Testaments Put down in Tuscan by the Abbot Martini with footnotes Rendered into Castilian by a member of the Regular Clergy of the Congregation of San Cayetano of this Court With permission Madrid: Aznar, 1797, (1797), NULL, NULL
• César Bruto (1)
  • IN: Hopscotch (1963) Novel, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Everytime it starts to get cool, I mean in the middle of autim~~, I start gettin nutty ideas like I was thinkin about what was forein~~ and different, like for exsample~~ how I'd like to turn into a swallow and get away and fly to the countrys where it gets hot, or be an ant so's I could get deep into a cave and eat the stuff I stored away durin the summer or be a snake like what they got in the zoO~~, the ones they keep lockt up in glass cages thats heated so's they don't get stiff from the cold, which is what happens to poor human beans who cant buy no close cause the price is to~~ high, and cant keep warm cause theys no keroseen, no coal, no wood, no fule oil and besides theys no loot, cause when you go around with bocoo bread you can go into any bar and get some sneaky pete that can be real warmin, even tho it aint good to overdo it cause if you overdos it it gets to be a bad habbit~~ and bad habbits is bad for your body just like they is for youre selfrespeck~~, and when you start goin downhill cause your actin bad in everythin, they aint nobody or nothin can stop you from endin up a stinkin piece of human garbidge~~ and they never gone give you a hand to haul you up outen~~ they dirty much you rollin around in, not even if you was a eaglE~~ when you was young and could fly up and over the highest hills, but when you get old you like a highflyin bomber thats lost its moral engines and fall down outen~~ the sky. I jes~~ hope what I been writin down hear~~ do somebody some good so he take a good look at how he livin and he dont be sorry when it too late and everythin is gone down the drain caise it his own fault.
    FROM: What I Would Like to Be If I Wasn't What I Am (Chapter: "A St. Bernard Dog"), (None), Short story, NULL

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• Marianna Baer (1)
  • IN: The Inconceivable Life of Quinn (2017) Magical Realism, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Memory is a mirror that scandalously lies.
    FROM: Around the Day in Eighty Worlds, (1967), NULL, Argentina
• Thomas Orton (1)
  • IN: The Lost Glass Plates of Wilfred Eng (1999) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We are immortal, I know it sounds like a joke.
    FROM: A Yellow Flower, (1968), Short Story, US/Spain
• Roy Kesey (1)
  • IN: Pacazo (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The terrors, what a luxury for the imagination.
    FROM: Hopscotch, (1963), Novel, Argentina