Author: William T. Vollmann

Cites

• Ignatius of Loyola (1)
  • IN: Whores for Gloria (1991) FIction, American
    EPIGRAPH: ... love consists in a mutual interchange by the two parties.
    FROM: Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola, (1548), Book, Spain
• Lebinitz (1)
  • IN: The Atlas (1996) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I always liked books that contained some fine thoughts, but books that one could read without stopping, for they aroused ideas in me which I could follow at my fancy and pursue as I pleased. This also prevented me from reading geometry books with care, and I must admit that I have not yet brought myself to read Euclid in any other way than one commonly read novels.
    FROM: letter to Foucher, (1675), Letter, Germany
• Reverend William Symonds (1)
  • IN: Argall (2001) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: This land was of old time offered to our kings. Our late Sovereign Queen Elizabeth (whose story hath no peer among princes of her sex), being a pure virgin, found it, set foot in it, and called it V i r g i n i a. Such as do manage the expedition are careful to carry thither no traitors, nor Papists that depend on the Great Whore. LORD finish this good work Thou hast begun; and marry this land, a pure virgin, to Thy kingly son CHRIST JESUS; so shall Thy name by magnified; and we shall have a virgin or maiden Britain, a comfortable addition to our Great Britain...
    FROM: sermon, (1609), NULL, UK
• Erewhon (1)
  • IN: Argall (2001) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: ... there are few of us who are not protected from the keenest pain by our inability to see what it is that we have done, what we are suffering, and what we truly are. Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.
    FROM: Butler, Samuel, (1872), NULL, UK
• Father Giuseppe Bressani, Francesco (1)
  • IN: Fathers and Crows (1992) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The letter is badly written, and quite soiled, because, among other inconveniences, the writer has but one whole finger on his right hand, and can scarcely prevent the paper's being stained by the blood which flows from his yet unhealed wounds. His ink is arquebus powder, and his table the bare earth.
    FROM: Brief Relation of the Mission in New France, (1653), NULL, Italy