Author: Nicola Barker

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• NULL (1)
  • IN: The Yips (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: yips (y ps). pl. n. Nervousness or tension that causes an athlete to fail to perform effectively, especially in missing short putts in golf.
    FROM: The Free Dictionary, (2003), Dictionary definition, NULL
• Thomas Harman (1)
  • IN: Darkmans (2007) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: These demanders for glimmer be for the most part women; for glimmer, in their language, is fire.
    FROM: A Caveat for Common Cursitors, (1566), Book, UK
• Nicola Barker (1)
  • IN: Wide Open (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I dreamed I saw you dead in a place by the water. A ravaged place. All flat and empty and wide open.
    FROM: Wide Open, (1998), Novel, UK
• Shan-hui (1)
  • IN: Small Holdings (1995) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Empty-handed I go, and behold the spade is in my hands; I walk on foot, and yet on the back of an ox I am ridingl When I pass over the bridge, Lo, the water floweth not, but the bridge doth flow.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Unknown Critic (1)
  • IN: Happy (2017) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: In front, a corral of bamboo an two house palms. Mangoré presents himself with feathers. An anachronism. Something for children. His costume goes with the bamboo, but not with the guitar. The reception by the public is cold and silent, with ironic comments: 'horrendous', 'shocking', 'he's on marijuana' etc. The Indian sits, strokes his instrument in a strangely smooth manner and begins. The program does not seem to be in agreement with the situation -- it indicates the Indian feels he is a musician, and that he wants to give the best he can, but my God! That savage wants to play Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin on the guitar! It seems a sacrilege. We expect a disaster, a fatal musical calamity. He plays a Serenata Morisca of his own composition. On the mark. Another of his compositions, andante and allegretto. Notable. A Chilean dance... The guitar becomes a piano, violin, flute, mandolin, drum. There is nothing that this man can't do on the guitar. At times it seems the guitar plays itself... The applause grows, and increases with each piece until at the end of the performance the public is shouting 'encore' to which he replies 'thank you', simply 'thank you'.
    FROM: writing about the guitarist and composer Agustin Barrios, aka Chief Nitsuga Mangore, in the Nuestro Diario, (1933), NULL, Guatemala
• Saint Augustine (1)
  • IN: Happy (2017) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
    FROM: City of God, (476), NULL, Algeria
• Euripides (1)
  • IN: Happy (2017) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
    FROM: Orestes, (-408), NULL, Greece
• Akkamahadevi (1)
  • IN: The Cauliflower (2016) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Not one, not two, not three or four, but through eighty-four hundred thousand vaginas have I come. I have come through unlikely worlds, guzzled on pleasure and pain. Whatever be all previous lives, show me mercy this one day O lord white as jasmine.
    FROM: NULL, (1150), NULL, India
• Bible (1)
  • IN: The Cauliflower (2016) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Catch us the fozes, The little foxes that spoil the vines, For our vines have tender grapes.
    FROM: Song of Solomon, 2:15, (-165), Bible, NULL

Cited by

• Nicola Barker (1)
  • IN: Wide Open (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I dreamed I saw you dead in a place by the water. A ravaged place. All flat and empty and wide open.
    FROM: Wide Open, (1998), Novel, UK