Author: Michael Tolkin

Cites

• Joseph Roth (1)
  • IN: NK3 (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It really was as if the so-called "human" qualities had been characteristic features of a period of human history long past and were now only to be found on tombstones, as inscriptions for the dead.
    FROM: The Silent Prophet, (1929), Book, Austria
• James Merrill (1)
  • IN: Among the Dead (1993) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Minutes nearer Midnight. On which stroke Powers at the heart of matter, powers We shall have hacked through thorns to kiss awake, Will open baleful, sweeping eyes, draw breath And speak new formulae of megadeath. No souls came from Hiroshima u Know Earth wore a strange new zone of energy Caused by? Smashed atoms of the dead my dears News that brought into play our deepest fears.
    FROM: The Book of Ephraim, (1976), Book, US
• Thoreau (1)
  • IN: Among the Dead (1993) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: All their plans and hopes burst like a bubble! Infants by the score dashed on the rocks by the enraged Atlantic Ocean! No, no!
    FROM: Cape Cod, (1865), Book, US