The Ocean at the End of the Lane (Gaiman):
"I remember my own childhood vividly... I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I knew. It would scare them."
Maurice Sendak, in converation with Art Spiegelman, The New Yorker, september 27, 1993.
Stardust (Gaiman):
SongGo, and catch a falling star,
Get with child a mandrake root,
Tell me, where all past years are,
Or who cleft the Devil's foot,
Teach me to hear mermaids singing,
Or to keep of envy's stinging,
And find
What wind
Serves to advance an honest wind.
If thou be'est born to strange sights,
Things invisible to see,
Ride ten thousands days and nights,
Till age snow white hairs on thee,
Thou, when thou return'st, wilt tell me
All strange wonders that befell thee,
And swear
Nowhere
Lives a woman true, and fair.
If thou find'st one, let me know,
Such a pilgrimage were sweet,
Yet do not, I would not go,
Thou at next door we might meet,
Thou she were true when you met her,
And last, till you write your letter,
Yet she
Will be
False, ere I come, to two, or three.
- John Donne, 1572-1631
The Graveyard Book (Gaiman):
Rattle his bones
Over the stones
It's only a pauper
Who nobody owns
Traditional Nursery Rhyme
The God of Small Things (Roy):
Never again will a single story be told as
though it's the only one.
John Berger
Över näktergalens golv (Hearn)
Hjorten som äktar
höstens klöverbuske
sägs
avla en ensamt kid
och detta mitt kid
denne ende son
ger sig ut på resa
med gräset som kudde
(Manyoshu vol. 9 nr 1790)
Ur De åtta öarnas land
Hiroaki Sato och Burton Watson
jPod (Coupland):
"Vinnare knarkar inte"
William S. Sessions, chef för FBI
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