Lament of the Irish Emigrant
“Mary had a little lamb, its fleece electrostatic / And everywhere Mary went, the lights became erratic.”
Source: Infinite Jest
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
David Foster Wallace 185
American fiction writer and essayist 1962–2008Related quotes
                                        
                                        "The Irish Emigrant" (c. 1860), line 1; p. 105. 
Songs, Poems, & Verses (1894)
                                    
“Light, with its handmaiden color, was everywhere.”
Source: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, The Dragonbone Chair (1988), Chapter 37, “Jiriki’s Hunt” (p. 629).
                                        
                                        No. 1, "Walking With God". 
Olney Hymns (1779)
                                    
                                        
                                        Vol. III, Ch. XXVII, The Role of Credit, p. 440. 
Das Kapital (Buch III) (1894)
                                    
“There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.”