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Apropos of nothing, my top five epigraphs from books:
1/ A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole:
"When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." - Jonathan Swift
1/ A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole:
"When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." - Jonathan Swift
2/ Somewhere Towards the End by Diana Athill:
"It ain't no sin
To take of your skin
And dance about
In your bones."
- Edgar Leslie
"It ain't no sin
To take of your skin
And dance about
In your bones."
- Edgar Leslie
3/ In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondjaate:
“The joyful people will stoop with sorrow, and when you have gone to the earth I will let my hair grow long for your sake, I will wander through the wilderness in the skin of a lion.”
- The Epic of Gilgamesh
“The joyful people will stoop with sorrow, and when you have gone to the earth I will let my hair grow long for your sake, I will wander through the wilderness in the skin of a lion.”
- The Epic of Gilgamesh
4/ Down at the Cross by James Baldwin:
"God gave Noah the rainbow sign:
No more rain, the fire next time!"
- Spiritual
"God gave Noah the rainbow sign:
No more rain, the fire next time!"
- Spiritual
5/ A Hot Country by Shiva Naipaul:
"In this country she was afraid. But it was her soul more than her body that knew fear. She had thought that each individual had a complete self, a complete soul, an accomplished I. And now she realised... this was not so."
- DH Lawrence
"In this country she was afraid. But it was her soul more than her body that knew fear. She had thought that each individual had a complete self, a complete soul, an accomplished I. And now she realised... this was not so."
- DH Lawrence
