Author: Kim Robinson

Cites

• Cheng'en Wu (1)
  • IN: The Year of Rice and Salt (2002) Alternate history, American
    EPIGRAPH: Tripitaka: Monkey, how far is it to the Western Heaven, the abode of Buddha? Wu kong: You can walk from the time of your youth till the time you grow old, and after that, till you become young again; and even after going through such a cycle a thousand times, you may still find it difficult to reach the place where you want to go. But when you perceive, by the resoluteness of your will, the Buddha nature in all things, and when every one of your thoughts goes back to that fountain in your memory, that will be the time you arrive at Spirit Mountain.
    FROM: The Journey to the West, (1592), Novel, China
• Percy Shelley (1)
  • IN: Icehenge (1984) Science Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A ship is floating in the harbour now, A wind is hovering o’er the mountain’s brow; There is a path on the sea’s azure floor, No keel has ever plough’d that path before; The halcyons brood around the foamless isles; The treacherous Ocean has forsworn its wiles; The merry mariners are bold and free: Say, my heart’s sister, wilt thou sail with me?
    FROM: Epipsychidion, (1821), Poem, UK
• Dalai Lama (1)
  • IN: Sixty Days and Counting (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I believe the twenty-first century can become the most important century of human history. I think a new reality is emerging. Whether this view is realistic or not, there is no harm in making an effort.
    FROM: The Dalai Lama, November 15, 2005, Washington, D.C., (2005), NULL, Tibet
• Roald Amundsen (1)
  • IN: Antarctica (1997) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The land looks like a fairytale
    FROM: NULL, (1911), Journal, Norway
• Virgil (1)
  • IN: Galileo's Dream (2009) Science Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The Muses love alternatives.
    FROM: Eclogues, Book III, (-38), Poem, Italy