| |
| |
| |
OPENING QUOTATIONS
101. Gehenna
"I smell blood and an era of prominent madmen." - WH Auden
102. Dead Letters
"For the thing I greatly feared has come upon me. And what I dreaded has happened to me. I am not at ease, nor am I quiet; I have no rest, for trouble comes." - Job 3:25, 26
104. The Judge
"...the visible world seems formed in love, the invisible sphere were formed in fright." - H. Melville (1819-1891)
105. 522666
"I am responsible for everything... except my very responsibility." - Jean-Paul Sarte
103. Kingdom Come
"And there will be such intense darkness that one can feel it." - Exodus 10:21
106. Blood Relatives
"This generation is a wicked generation; it seeks for a sign, and yet no sign shall be given to it..." - Luke 11:29
107. The Well Worn Lock
"The cruelest lies are often told in silence." - Robert Louis Stevenson
108. Wide Open
"His children are far from safety; They shall be crushed at the gate without a rescuer." - Job 5:4
110. The Wild and the Innocent
"O Lord, if there is a Lord, save my soul, if I have a soul..." - Ernest Renan
109. Weeds
"But know ye for certain...Ye shall surely bring innocent blood upon yourselves and upon this city..." - Jeremiah 26:15
111. Loin Like a Hunting Flame
"Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast." - Faust
112. Force Majeure
"You can remember, a single deluge only, but there were many previous ones." - Plato
113. The Thin White Line
"A man's past is not simply a dead history...it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavours and the tinglings of a mertited shame." - George Eliot
114. Sacrament
"He said to me in a dreadful voice that I had indeed escaped his clutches, but he would capture me still." - St. Teresa of Avila
116. Covenant
"Thou dost frighten me with dreams and terrify me by visions." - Job 7:14
115. Walkabout
"I remember the very thing that I do not wish to; I cannot forget the things I wish to forget." - Cicero
117. Lamentation
"Every man before he dies shall see the devil." - English Proverb 1560
118. Powers, Principalities, Thrones, and Dominions
"Paranoia is just a kind of awareness, and awareness is just another form of love." - Charles Manson
119. Broken World
"Man is the cruelest animal" - Nietzche
120. Maranatha
"Behold ye scoffers, For I will work wonders in your days, which ye will not believe." - Book of Rabakkuk
121. Paper Dove
"And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying all we did not know." - William Rose Benet
203. Sense and Antisense
"Control of third world populations designated secret national policy." - National Security Memo 200 (1971)
"U.S. Military released from liability for experimenting on unwilling and unknowing human subjects." - U.S. vs. Stanley, Supreme Court (1985)
204. Monster
"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." - Henry IV, part 2, act 4, scene 2
207. The Curse of Frank Black
"Do you ever find yourself talking with the dead? Since Willie's death, I catch myself every day, involuntarily talking with him as if he were with me." - Abraham Lincoln (upon the death of his son)
210. Goodbye Charlie
"Let us go in; the fog is rising." - Emily Dickinson, her last words, 1886
222. The Fourth Horseman
"So I looked, and behold, a pale horse. And the name of him who sat on it was death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given to them over the fourth of the Earth, to kill with sword, with hunger, with death... and by the beasts of the earth." - Revelation 6:8
"How long, Lord - how long will the wicked triumph?" - Psalms 94:3
305. ...Thirteen Years Later
"Never believe anything you see on Halloween." - Reverend M. Goodman, October 31, 1985
| |
| |
