
Source: Four Hundred Billion Stars (1988), Chapter 1 “Camp Zero” (p. 38)
Source: The Chronicles of Prydain (1964–1968), Book II: The Black Cauldron (1965), Chapter 14
Source: Four Hundred Billion Stars (1988), Chapter 1 “Camp Zero” (p. 38)
"Lot's Wife"
Poems New and Collected (1998), A Large Number (1976)
Context: I felt age within me. Distance.
The futility of wandering. Torpor.
I looked back setting my bundle down.
I looked back not knowing where to set my foot.
Serpents appeared on my path,
spiders, field mice, baby vultures.
They were neither good nor evil now — every living thing
was simply creeping or hopping along in the mass panic.
River out of Eden (1995)
“What are we allowed to do when we’re looking for things we’re required to do?”
You Shall Know Our Velocity! (2002)
“I wonder where we go when we die?”
“…Pittsburgh?”
“You mean if we’re good or if we’re bad?”
Source: The Essays: A Selection
De Potentia (On Power) q. 3, art. 6, ad 4