Author: Robert Coover

Cites

• Rick Blaine (1)
  • IN: A Night At the Moviesor, You Must Remember This (1987) Anthology, American
    EPIGRAPH: Our expenses? Rod, I think this is the middle of a beautiful friendship..
    FROM: Casablanca, (1942), Film, US
• Immanuel Kant (1)
  • IN: The Universal Baseball Association, Inc. J. Henry Waugh, Prop. (1968) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It is here not at all requisite to prove that such an intellectus archetypus is possible, but only that we are led to the Idea of it
    FROM: Critique of Judgement, (1970), Book, Germany
• Mark Twain (1)
  • IN: Huck Out West (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: "He had a dream," I says, "and it shot him."
    FROM: Huckleberry Finn, (1884), Novel, US
• NULL (1)
  • IN: Public Burning (1977) Speculative fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: For the sixth time, the mousy little engineer and his wife, waiting in Sing Sing’s death house, had petitioned the highest tribunal…. For the sixth time, a majority of the nine Justices rejected a Rosenberg appeal…. Then, as the clock ticked on toward 11 p.m. Thursday, the hour of death for the spies, Supreme Court Justice William Douglas acted alone. Unexpectedly, the court having recessed for the summer, he granted the stay of execution that the full court had denied. That touched off, within the next 24 hours, one of the most dramatic and novel episodes in all the august annals of the U.S. Supreme Court….
    FROM: “The Last Appeal,” TIME, June 29, 1953, (1953), Article, US
• Josephine Paris (1)
  • IN: Public Burning (1977) Speculative fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: That’s what I’m counting on most of all — the stories.
    FROM: Josephine Paris (as played by Ethel Rosenberg) in The Valiant, by H. E. Porter and Robert Middlemass, (1921), Play, US
• Dwight David Eisenhower (1)
  • IN: Public Burning (1977) Speculative fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I did not come to tell you things that you know as well as I.
    FROM: Dwight David Eisenhower April 7, 1953, (1953), Speech, US
• Mrs Richard Nixon (2)
  • IN: Public Burning (1977) Speculative fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: All my humor is situation stuff….
    FROM: NULL, (None), Speech, US
• Sally Elliott (1)
  • IN: The Brunist Day of Wrath (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The Kingdom is at war, besieged by a roving band of demented Cretin Wizards who have stirred up the forest wild things and aroused the demonic within the commoners. Undermined by intrigue and stupidity, its battlements crumbling, the Kingdom is about to capitulate. The King and his minions cannot save it. But Beauty can try.
    FROM: Against the Cretins, (2014), Fictional, NULL
• Bible (1)
  • IN: Origin of the Brunists (1966) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Write what you see in a book and send it to the Seven Churches.
    FROM: Bible, Revelations 1:11, (100), Bible, NULL
• Ovid (1)
  • IN: John's Wife (1996) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Those two, with so much else in common, were models for me, masters, examples to follow, and now my justification.
    FROM: Tristia, Book II, (8), Poem, Italy