Author: Madison Smartt Bell

Cites

• George Garrett (1)
  • IN: Devil's Dream (2009) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Soldiers do not fight any better because of a good cause or a bad one.
    FROM: Double Vision, (2004), Novel, UK
• Albert Einstein (1)
  • IN: Devil's Dream (2009) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: The separation between past, present, and future is only an illusion, although a convincing one.
    FROM: letter to Michele Besso (family), (1955), Letter, Germany/US
• Iris Murdoch (1)
  • IN: The Color of Night (2011) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Forgive is too weak a word. Recall the idea of Até, which was so real to the Greeks. Até is the name of the almost automatic transfer of suffering from one being to another. Power is a form of Até. The victims of power, and any power has its victims, are themselves infected. They have then to pass it on, to use the power on others.
    FROM: The Unicorn, (1963), Novel, UK
• Mimerose Beaubrun (1)
  • IN: Behind the Moon (2017) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: The dreamer enters the unknown world... The dreamer, in the course of such journeys, meets other beings and speaks with them. She may sometimes meet other dreamers, in the form of energy. She is able to make speedy departures and returns between the known world and the unknown world, which always gives the impression of being outside time.
    FROM: Nana Domi, (2011), Book, Haiti
• Jean Clottes and David Lewis-Williams (1)
  • IN: Behind the Moon (2017) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Understandably enough, they would have believed that caves led to that subterranean tier of the cosmos. The walls, ceilings, and floors of the caves were therefore little more than a thin membrane between themselves and the creatures and happenings of the underworld. The caves were awesome, liminal places in which to be.
    FROM: The Shamans of Prehistory, (1996), Book, France
• Judith Thurman (1)
  • IN: Behind the Moon (2017) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: The acoustics magnify every sound, and it takes the brain a few minutes to accept the totality of the darkness -- your sight keeps grasping for a hold. Whatever the art means, you understand, at that moment, that its vessel is both a womb and a sepulchre.
    FROM: First Impressions: What does the world's oldest art say about us?, (2008), Article, US