Jad to Raz, Part 11, "Advent"
Anathem (2008)
Creation seminars (2003-2005), The Garden of Eden
“Now I become myself. It’s taken time, many years and places.”
2000s, Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century (2004)
Context: Now, years later, I still have trouble when I think about Chicago ('68). That week at the Convention changed everything I'd ever taken for granted about this country and my place in it... Everytime I tried to tell somebody what happened in Chicago I began crying, and it took me years to understand why... Chicago was the End of the Sixties, for me.
“Presents, I often say, endear absents.”
A Dissertation upon Roast Pig; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Essays of Elia (1823)
“I am a man now.
Pass your hand over my brow.
You can feel the place where the brains grow.”
"Here"
Tares (1961)
“I cross the place where my heart used to be and hope to be even deader than I am now.”
Source: Death Bringer
“If the past is a house of many chambers, then the present is the most recent coat of paint.”
Section 12 (p. 211)
Short fiction, Rumfuddle (1973)
On the United Kingdom being behind the United States when it comes to incorporating Black characters in “Suzan-Lori Parks: 'People in America are often encouraged not to think'” https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2016/sep/21/suzan-lori-parks-interview-royal-court-father-comes-home-from-the-wars-obama in The Guardian (2016 Sep 21)
