Author: Scarlett Thomas

Cites

• Friedrich Nietzsche (1)
  • IN: The Seed Collectors (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Crown yourselves with ivy, grasp the thyrsus and do no be amazed if tigers and panthers lie down fawning at your feet. Now dare to be tragic, for you will be redeemed.
    FROM: The Birth of Tragedy, (1872), Book, Germany
• William Blake (1)
  • IN: The Seed Collectors (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Ah! sunflower, weary of time, Who countest the steps of the sun, Seeking after that sweet golden clime Where the traveller's journey is done; Where the youth pined away with desire, And the pale virgin shrouded in snow, Arise from their graves and aspire; Where my sunflower wishes to go.
    FROM: "Ah, sunflower!", (1794), Poem, UK
• Stanley Milgram (1)
  • IN: PopCo (2004) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: In the postexperimental interview, when subjects were asked why they had gone on, a typical reply was: 'I wouldn't have done it by myself. I was just doing what I was told.' Unable to defy the authority of the experimenter, they attribute all responsibility to him. It is the old story of 'just doing one's duty'...
    FROM: Obedience to Authority, (1974), NULL, US