Nick Drake est un écrivain et poète de nationalité britannique né en 1961.
Il étudie à université de Cambridge. Il travaille ensuite pour la BBC . Il publie des revues de poésie.
Il travaille à l’édition de la correspondance de Robert Graves en Espagne. Il a adapté au théâtre la pièce Peribanez de Lope de Vega. Wikipedia
“Do not indulge yourself in a self-pitying, self-gratifying revenge.”
ibid
The Rahotep series, Book 3: Egypt: The Book of Chaos (2011)
Contexte: Death makes us strangers to ourselves... Do not indulge yourself in a self-pitying, self-gratifying revenge. More than likely you would simply end up dead as well.
ibid
The Rahotep series, Book 2: Tutankhamun
Contexte: Rhetoric is a dangerous art. It is the manipulation of the difference, one might say the distance, between truth and image [... ] And in our times, that distance has become the means by which power is exercised [... ] Rhetoric has been a force for persuasion since man began to speak, and to convince his enemy that he was indeed his friend.
“Conflict defines nations. Enemies justify armies. Wars glorify generals.”
Ch 7
The Rahotep series, Book 3: Egypt: The Book of Chaos (2011)
Contexte: Conflict defines nations. Enemies justify armies. Wars glorify generals. Without his great enemy to give him purpose and meaning, he will be significantly diminished. He will have to come to terms with us.
Source: The Rahotep series, Book 3: Egypt: The Book of Chaos (2011), Ch. 2
“There is no such thing as a cheerful poem [... ] Happiness writes in water, not ink.”
Ch 2
The Rahotep series, Book 3: Egypt: The Book of Chaos (2011)
Ch 8
The Rahotep series, Book 3: Egypt: The Book of Chaos (2011)
Contexte: A little distance had opened between us, almost unnoticed, rarely acknowledged. We made love infrequently. The couch was for sleep at the end of exhausting days. I confided in her less often. Perhaps that is the fate of all marriages.
“But to be a poet is to accept the responsibility of speaking the truth!”
Source: The Rahotep series, Book 3: Egypt: The Book of Chaos (2011), Ch. 2
Contexte: I see I have shocked you all a little. But to be a poet is to accept the responsibility of speaking the truth! No matter what the cost to my personal safety [... ] in matters of men and this world. I’m a poet, not a complete fool…
“I know these writers, they say “borrow” when they mean “steal.””
ibid
The Rahotep series, Book 2: Tutankhamun
Contexte: Be careful, Rahotep, I know these writers, they say “borrow” when they mean “steal.” You will soon read your words coming back to you on some privately circulated scroll of new verse.
Ch 17
The Rahotep series, Book 3: Egypt: The Book of Chaos (2011)
Contexte: My dear friend, the world is really one vast marketplace. No one cares where a man is from as long as he has gold in his pocket, or something you want. And the remarkable thing is this: the wars have only encouraged demand, trade has actually boomed in these difficult years. The ships are full, everyone is happy. War and politics are irrelevant, unless the great flow of trade is disturbed.
“There is truth in what you say. Truth is a dangerous muse. One dies for the truth.”
Source: The Rahotep series, Book 3: Egypt: The Book of Chaos (2011), Ch. 2
“For a world with so much sun we live in a dark place, in a dark time.”
ibid
The Rahotep series, Book 2: Tutankhamun
ibid
The Rahotep series, Book 2: Tutankhamun
“It would be another day ruled by this world’s new gods: gold and power.”
Source: The Rahotep series, Book 3: Egypt: The Book of Chaos (2011), Ch. 1
ibid
The Rahotep series, Book 2: Tutankhamun
“I would much rather have a living husband with no job and no gold than a dead one.”
ibid
The Rahotep series, Book 3: Egypt: The Book of Chaos (2011)
Ch 1
The Rahotep series, Book 3: Egypt: The Book of Chaos (2011)
Ch 18
The Rahotep series, Book 2: Tutankhamun
Ch 11
The Rahotep series, Book 3: Egypt: The Book of Chaos (2011)
Ch 11
The Rahotep series, Book 2: Tutankhamun
“The truth is always the truth.”
Source: The Rahotep series, Book 3: Egypt: The Book of Chaos (2011), Ch. 2
“Order is the priority of power.”
Ch 9
The Rahotep series, Book 2: Tutankhamun
“Fear, that unknowable and all-powerful enemy, has invaded us all, like a secret army of shadows.”
Ch 2
The Rahotep series, Book 2: Tutankhamun
“Even words are not perhaps safe in these times.”
ibid
The Rahotep series, Book 2: Tutankhamun
“Fear is a powerful enemy, but a useful friend.”
Ch 6
The Rahotep series, Book 2: Tutankhamun
Ch 5
The Rahotep series, Book 3: Egypt: The Book of Chaos (2011)
“We need strong, educated women to help us build a better world.”
Ch 6
The Rahotep series, Book 3: Egypt: The Book of Chaos (2011)
“Hunger is no respecter of disaster.”
Ch 29
The Rahotep series, Book 3: Egypt: The Book of Chaos (2011)
