Author: Michael Gruber

Cites

• St. Augustine (1)
  • IN: Night Of The Jaguar (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Credibilium tria sunt genera. Alia sunt quae semper creduntur et numquam intelleguntur: sicut est omnis historia, temporalia et humana gesta percurrens. Alia quae mox, ut creduntur, intelleguntur: sicut sunt omnes rationes humanae, vel de numeris, vel de quibuslibet disciplinis. Tertium, quae primo creduntur, et postea intelleguntur: qualia sunt ea, quae de divinis rebus non possunt intelligi, nisi ab his qui mundo sunt corde. There are three kinds of credible things: those that are always believed and never understood: such is all history, such are all temporal things and human actions. Those that are understood as soon as they are believed: such are all human reasonings, concerning numbers or any other discipline. Third, those that are believed first and understood afterward: such are those concerning divine things, which can only be comprehended by the clean of heart.
    FROM: Of Various Questions, LXXXIII, 48, (396), NULL, Roman Africa
• William Shakespeare (1)
  • IN: The Book of Air and Shadows (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Our Revels now are ended: These our actors (As I foretold you) were all Spirits, and Are melted into Ayre, into thin Ayre, And like the baselesse fabricke of this vision The Clowd-capt Towres, the gorgeous Pallaces, The solemne Temples, the great Globe it selfe, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And like this insubstantial Pageant faded Leave not a racke behinde: we are such stuffe As dreames are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleepe…
    FROM: The Tempest, act IV, scene i, The First Folio, 1623, (1623), Play, UK
• Robert Conquest (1)
  • IN: The Forgery of Venus (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: So with the faulty image as a start We come at length to analyse and name The luminous darkness in the depths of art: The timelessness that holds us is the same As that of the transcendent sexual glance And art grows brilliant in the light it sheds, Direct or not, on the inhabitants Of our imagination and our beds.
    FROM: “The Rokeby Venus”, (1955), Poem, England/US
• de Cervantes, Miguel (1)
  • IN: The Forgery of Venus (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: “I’ll lay a bet,” said Sancho, “that before long there won’t be a tavern, roadside inn, hostelry, or barber’s shop where the story of our doings won’t be painted up; but I’d like it painted by the hand of a better painter than painted these.” “Thou art right, Sancho,” said Don Quixote, “for this painter is like Orbaneja, a painter there was at Ubeda, who when they asked him what he was painting, used to say, ‘Whatever it may turn out’; and if he chanced to paint a cock he would write under it, ‘This is a cock,’ for fear they might think it was a fox.”
    FROM: Don Quixote, (1615), Novel, Spain
• Prophet Muhammad (1)
  • IN: The Good Son (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The Prophet was asked: Whom should you befriend most? He replied: “Your mother. Then your mother. Then your mother. Then your father.”
    FROM: Sayings of the prophet Muhammad, (None), Saying, NULL
• Simone Weil (1)
  • IN: Valley of Bones (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There are four evidences of divine mercy here below. The favors of God to beings capable of contemplation (these states exist and form part of their experience as creatures). The radiance of these beings, and their compassion, which is the divine compassion in them. The beauty of the world. The fourth evidence is the complete absence of mercy here below.
    FROM: Gravity and Grace, (1947), Book, France
• Bible (1)
  • IN: Valley of Bones (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The hand of the Lord was upon me, and carried me out in the Spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley, which was full of bones.
    FROM: EZEKIEL,37:1, (-165), Bible, NULL
• NULL (1)
  • IN: Valley of Bones (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Blood of Christ, Society of Nursing Sisters of the (SBC) Founded by Bd. Marie-Ange de Berville in 1895, the Nursing Sisters of the Blood of Christ are dedicated to giving succor and providing healing to the innocent victims of war and oppression. The order, which was one of the few to retain the habit after the reforms of the Second Vatican Council, is noted for its almost military discipline and its custom of recruiting very young girls from the ranks of abandoned and disabled children throughout the world, although this aspect of its work has been widely criticized. Sisters of the order have distinguished themselves by their bravery and self-sacrifice during both world wars and thereafter in many fields of strife. Although counting no more than three thousand professed sisters and oblates at the present time, it has lost to death over 120 of its number, more than any other order in modern times. Traditionally, its members categorically refuse to leave patients and communities for which they have taken responsibility, in keeping with the order’s motto “Where we go, we remain.”See also Bd. Marie-Ange de Berville; Pope Pius XI; Cardinal Matteo Ratti.
    FROM: ENCYCLOPEDIA CATHOLICA, 2D ED.,1997, (1997), Book, NULL
• Octavio Paz (2)
  • IN: The Return (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: On the chest of Mexico tablets written by the sun stairway of the centuries spiral terraces of wind anger panting thirst the disinterred dances the blind fighting beneath the sun of noon thirst panting anger beating each other with stones the blind beat each toher the men are crushing the stones are crushing within there is a water we drink bitter water water that increases thirst Where is the other water?
    FROM: Vuelta (Return), (1976), Poem, Mexico