Author: Tim Parks

Cites

• Antipater of Thessalonika (2)
  • IN: Europa (1997) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Europa (in Athens) does business at truly reasonable rates. You needn't fear interruption or the gainsaying of whims; also, she offers irreproachable sheets, and -- in winter -- a coal-fire. This time, Zeus, come as you are. No bull.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Greece
• Meleager (2)
  • IN: Europa (1997) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Love's night & a lamp judged our vows: that she would love me ever & I should never leave her. Love's night & you, lamp, witnessed the pact. Today the vow runs: 'Oaths such as these, waterwords.' Tonight, lamp, witness her lying -- in other arms.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Greece
• NULL (1)
  • IN: Sex is Forbidden (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Enough of worldly affairs! I shall concentrate my mind in meditation, dragging it from false paths.
    FROM: The Bodhicaryavatara, (700), Religious Text, NULL
• Gregory Bateson (1)
  • IN: Dreams of Rivers and Seas (2008) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: We go on doing research and thinking about all sorts of problems, as if we could one day reach the thought that would set us free.
    FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], UK
• Aeschylus (1)
  • IN: Shear (1993) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The mortal cannot go fearless through these many-coloured beauties.
    FROM: Agamemnon, 923-4, (None), Poem, Greece

Cited by

• Lacy Crawford (1)
  • IN: Early Decision (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: "Empower" is a verb I dislike, easy currency of those who tyrannize us with their piety. But I felt inclined to use it now.
    FROM: Teach Us to Sit Still: A Sceptic's Search for Health and Healing, (2010), Book, UK