Author: Robert Wilson

Cites

• Oliver Wendell Holmes (1)
  • IN: The Ignorance of Blood (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.
    FROM: A Mortal Antipathy, (1885), Novel, US
• Bible (1)
  • IN: Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy (1981) Fiction, Science Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Not until the male become female and the female becomes male shall ye enter the Kingdom of Heaven.
    FROM: Bible, in The Gospel of Thomas, (100), Bible, NULL
• Christopher Smart (1)
  • IN: Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy (1981) Fiction, Science Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: For the Cherub Cat is a term in the Angel Tiger
    FROM: Jubilate Agno, (1939), Poem, UK
• Carl Jung (1)
  • IN: Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy (1981) Fiction, Science Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: History is a nightmare from which none of us can awaken.
    FROM: Stephen Prometheus, from Odysseus, (None), Book, Switzerland
• Anaximander (1)
  • IN: Axis (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It is necessary that things should pass away into that from which they are born. For things must pay one another the penalty and compensation for their injustice according to the ordinance of time.
    FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], Turkey/Greece
• Polton Cross (1)
  • IN: Blind Lake (2003) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Telescopes of surpassing power revealed to her the unrevealed depths of the cosmos on polished mirrors of floating mercury. The dead worlds of Sirius, the half-formed worlds of Arcturus, the rich but lifeless worlds whirling around vast Antares and Betelgeuse — these she studied, without avail.
    FROM: Wings Across the Cosmos, (1938), NULL, UK
• James Anthony Froude (2)
  • IN: Julian Comstock: A Story of 22-nd Century America (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We read the past by the light of the present, and the forms vary as the shadows fall, or as the point of vision alters.
    FROM: Short Studies on Great Subjects, (1867), Book, UK
  • IN: Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America (2009) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: We read the past by the light of the present, and the forms vary as the shadows fall, or as the point of vision alters.
    FROM: Short Studies on Great Subjects, (1867), Book, UK
• Sir Thomas Browne (2)
  • IN: Julian Comstock: A Story of 22-nd Century America (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Look not for roses in Attalus his garden, or wholesome flowers in a venomous plantation. And since there is scarce any one bad, but some others are the worse for him, tempt not contagion by proximity, and hazard not thyself in the shadow of corruption.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Book, UK
  • IN: Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America (2009) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Look not for roses in Attalus his garden, or wholesome flowers in a venomous plantation. And since there is scarce any one bad, but some others are the worse for him, tempt not contagion by proximity, and hazard not thyself in the shadow of corruption.
    FROM: Christian Morals, (1716), Book, UK
• Arthur E. Hertzler (2)
  • IN: Julian Comstock: A Story of 22-nd Century America (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Crowns, generally speaking, have thorns.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
  • IN: Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America (2009) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Crowns, generally speaking, have thorns.
    FROM: The Horse and Buggy Doctor, (1938), Book, US
• Peter Matthiessen (1)
  • IN: Gypsies (1988) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: One turns in all directions and sees nothing. Yet one senses that there is a source for this deep restlessness; and the path that leads there is not a path to a strange place, but a path home.
    FROM: The Snow Leopard, (1978), Book, US
• Anonymous (1)
  • IN: Chronos (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Woe is me, woe is me! The acorn’s not yet fallen from the tree That’s to grow the wood That’s to make the cradle That’s to rock the babe That’s to grow a man That’s to lay me to my rest
    FROM: The Ghost's Song, (None), [NA], NULL
• Blaise Pascal (1)
  • IN: Burning Paradise (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.
    FROM: Pensees, (1670), Book, France
• Ethan Iverson (2)
  • IN: Burning Paradise (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Nature is mindless, but it has mastered the art of deception.
    FROM: The Fisherman and the Spider, (2013), Fictional, US
• NULL (1)
  • IN: The Affinities (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: When an obscure data-management company launched what it called “the Affinities” a couple of years ago, almost no one paid attention. It was a quixotic idea that seemed to gain no traction: there was no ad campaign outside of a few media outlets in a few major cities, and not much press coverage even in those markets. But something surprising was happening under the radar … Invited as a special guest to a local meeting, I arrived with limited expectations. What I would find, I suspected, was a group of perfectly ordinary people who had been convinced to pay annual dues for the privilege of flattering one another, a commercial conceit of which P. T. Barnum might have been proud. But there was a real energy in the gathering—social, sexual, intellectual—that took me by surprise. It made me wonder where all this was going, and I asked one young woman what she thought the members of her Affinity might be doing in twenty or thirty years. She laughed at the question. “Writing our memoirs, I guess,” she said. “Or maybe signing our confessions.”
    FROM: The Atlantic, feature article, “Teleodynamics, Meir Klein, and the Rise of the Affinities”, (2015), Article, US
• Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1)
  • IN: Capital Punishment (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?
    FROM: The Gulag Archipelago, (1973), NULL, Russia
• Jim Morrison and The Doors (1)
  • IN: A Bridge of Years (1991) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Woe is me, woe is me! The acorn’s not yet fallen from the tree That’s to grow the wood That’s to make the cradle That’s to rock the babe That’s to grow a man That’s to lay me to my rest.
    FROM: The Ghost's Song, (1978), Song, US
• Henry Timrod (1)
  • IN: Last Year (2016) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Calm as that second summer which precedes The first fall of the snow, In the broad sunlight of heroic deeds, The City bides the foe.
    FROM: Charleston, (1864), Poem, US
• The Atlantic (1)
  • IN: The Affinities (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: When an obscure data-management company launched what it called “the Affinities” a couple of years ago, almost no one paid attention. It was a quixotic idea that seemed to gain no traction: there was no ad campaign outside of a few media outlets in a few major cities, and not much press coverage even in those markets. But something surprising was happening under the radar … Invited as a special guest to a local meeting, I arrived with limited expectations. What I would find, I suspected, was a group of perfectly ordinary people who had been convinced to pay annual dues for the privilege of flattering one another, a commercial conceit of which P. T. Barnum might have been proud. But there was a real energy in the gathering—social, sexual, intellectual—that took me by surprise. It made me wonder where all this was going, and I asked one young woman what she thought the members of her Affinity might be doing in twenty or thirty years. She laughed at the question. “Writing our memoirs, I guess,” she said. “Or maybe signing our confessions.”
    FROM: “Teleodynamics, Meir Klein, and the Rise of the Affinities”, (2015), Article, US

Cited by

• John Lescroart (1)
  • IN: The Hunt Club (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: You think you know yourself until things start happening, until you lose the insulation of normality.
    FROM: A Small Death in Lisbon, (1999), Novel, US