A rap lyric serves as the epigraph of each chapter.
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One knows it isn't typical right away, with its epigraph.
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Hark begins with a biblical epigraph and a stark, scriptural tone.
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I also ended up making it the epigraph prefacing my book.
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The epigraph is a poem Edmondson wrote in the fall of 2017.
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They are both the epigraph to Baldwin's book and its final words.
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Upon closer inspection, readers saw one particular call-out in the book's epigraph.
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The epigraph from Ellison also introduces the relationship between protest and artistic expression.
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" One story begins with an epigraph by Donald J. Trump: "I know words.
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I think at one point I wanted to use some lines from it as an epigraph.
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In his conclusion, he boasts of having taken the work of Czeslaw Milosz for his epigraph.
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" The epigraph of "Eat Pray Love" is "Tell the truth, tell the truth, tell the truth!
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" Well, a dead man can deliver a novel's epigraph, and maybe that's the one for "Presumptive.
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Yeah there was an epigraph in the book that said: Fortune doesn't change men, it unmasks them.
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Indeed, the word appears in both the title and the epigraph, but nowhere in the text itself.
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His program notes for "Lohengrin" even use a Brecht poem, "In Praise of Doubt," as an epigraph.
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" An epigraph, however, suggests otherwise: "Give me a copper penny and I'll tell you a golden story.
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"It's a generous medium, photography," he is quoted as saying in the epigraph to the MoMA catalog.
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The epigraph of "Talking It Over", "He lies like an eyewitness", is described simply as a "Russian saying".
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What speaks to me about that epigraph is that they were there because they loved what they were doing.
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The show debuted last summer with a plagiarized epigraph on magical realism that never gets justified in the storytelling.
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"Whether Picnic at Hanging Rock is fact or fiction, my readers must decide for themselves," the novel's epigraph reads.
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Even the almost overlooked epigraph — non serviam, Latin for "I will not serve" — makes it something more than playful.
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" And "Wounds" begins with an epigraph from "Heart of Darkness" about a man who is "hollow at the core.
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The book's epigraph comes from "Uneasy Street," by Rachel Sherman, which is one of the books that inspired Reid.
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J. M. Barrie's epigraph to Oliver Jeffers's "Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth" says it best.
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I tracked down the source of Manseau's Kafka epigraph, that line characterizing photography as a tool of misrepresentation and tergiversation.
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And of course her story "A Haunted House" provides the epigraph for your movie and shows up in the film itself.
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It eventually appeared in my paintings, and even became the epigraph for a cycle of pieces about the trouble back home.
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When I read in the novel's epigraph, "Fail — yet rejoice," it felt like a lie and an impossible imperative at once.
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I've taken the epigraph for this column from the Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz, who knew something about the evils of certitude.
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Rereading that essay, I realize she wrote her own epitaph (or is it an epigraph?) more eloquent than any I could match.
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" That sentence is the epigraph to Michael Ondaatje's "In the Skin of a Lion" and Arundhati Roy's "The God of Small Things.
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He opens with an epigraph from Nietzsche, "All of life is a dispute over taste," which pretty much sums up the problem.
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The transporting poems, according to Dove's epigraph, "tell two sides of a story" (Thomas's in the first half and Beulah's in the second).
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"These are the images that have marked me and leave me wondering still," she writes, then signs the epigraph in her own handwriting.
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From his student days onward, Sebald was a deep reader of Adorno, and the passage might be an epigraph for all Sebald's writing.
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Instead, Alinsky attributes a quote to Lucifer on the book's epigraph page, seemingly inspired by Milton's conception of Satan as a free-thinking rebel.
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When the first volume of Larry Kramer's epic "The American People" appeared in 2015, it contained not one epigraph at its front but 12.
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H. Auden, "In Memory of WB Yeats" Since we're into poetry this week, I thought I'd just open this bad boy with a little epigraph.
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The book's epigraph is Plato's famous image, in the Republic, of inhabitants in a cave bewitched by shadows and unaware of the real world outside.
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This novel begins with an epigraph from "The Moviegoer" ("Businessmen are our only metaphysicians") and it shares some of that novel's buoyant yet searching tone.
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"It is so easy to see how and why they would love each other," the epigraph, taken from a 1989 essay by Alice Walker, reads.
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Former Senator Alan Simpson, Republican of Wyoming and a longtime friend, said Mr. Bush could have just one letter as his epigraph, L for loyalty.
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The epigraph for The Secret Commonwealth comes from William Blake, the visionary Romantic poet who saw Satan as the icon of creativity and ecstatic human freedom.
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A onetime reporter for this newspaper, Scott takes her epigraph from Henry James, and in places her prose recalls him, its sentences stretched out for leisure.
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Part Piranesi, part fever dream, the show is accompanied by a zinelike booklet that opens with an epigraph by the '80s East Village artist David Wojnarowicz.
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Nowhere is this more evident than in "Epigraph, Damascus" (2016), a six-panel print nearly 19 feet wide, alive with the corporal energies of her gestures.
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Shire's line is the epigraph of The New Odyssey, written by Guardian migration correspondent Patrick Kingsley, a critical assessment of Europe's role in the global refugee crisis.
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Though the script includes an epigraph from that literary master of poisonous passion, Jean Racine, "All the Ways" feels less like classical tragedy than vintage soap opera.
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Each chapter begins with an epigraph from Édouard Glissant, another Martinican writer who, with Chamoiseau and others, counts among the luminaries of the literary movement called Créolité.
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Malech has written nine poems, each with a line from "Metaphors" as an epigraph; each of Malech's poems is an anagram of the entirety of Plath's poem.
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"Debths" opens with an epigraph from Bing Crosby and the Music Maids' 1939 version of "Little Sir Echo," which suggests this book's deep structures of call and response.
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Gleick's epigraph to his penultimate chapter comes from Ursula Le Guin: "Story is our only boat for sailing on the river of time," and she's right, of course.
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Lines of Hardy came to serve as the epigraph — "Down their carved names / the raindrops plough" — to Chapter 20 of "Another Life," the most moving of Walcott's autobiographical work.
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" At first glance, this book seems constructed of very cerebral debates between mother and son — even the epigraph, Elizabeth Bishop's poem "Argument," includes the line: "argue argue argue with me.
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"Those … who are merry sometimes turn their behinds toward the sky and cast their excrement in the face of other men," proclaims the epigraph to A Week of Kindness's "Thursday" chapter.
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Gates & Fields opens with the epigraph, "The Carriage held but just Ourselves—," a line from the famous Emily Dickinson poem "Because I could not stop for Death," otherwise known as poem 479.
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But from the very epigraph, quoting a fictional scientist who says that it is physically impossible to survive for 40 days without sustenance, it's clear that one door, at least, is closed.
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Dornbusch's words provide the epigraph for a new paper* by Federico Sturzenegger, a former MIT student and Mr Macri's central-bank governor from when he took office in 19863 to mid-2018.
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But here it is again, referenced in the title and quoted in full as an epigraph to Barone's novel about the struggles of an annoying and entitled cop turned scholar named Cheri Matzner.
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" She points me to the novel's epigraph, a line from Alice Through the Looking Glass, in which Alice tells the Red Queen, "I wouldn't mind being a pawn, if only I might join.
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In 12000, the New Yorker published George W.S. Trow's essay describing this feeling under the title of "Within the Context of No Context," from which I took the epigraph and structure for this piece.
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The book's epigraph comes from "Waiting for Godot" — "It is not every day that we are needed" — and both its setting, a literal and metaphorical desert, and black humor also owe something to Beckett.
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Egan also gestures to this paradox by choosing as her epigraph a quote from Herman Melville, who spent most of his life not on the island of Nantucket but on the island of Manhattan.
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The epigraph urges caution — "Open me carefully," it says — and so do the titles of the stories: "If a Book Is Locked There's Probably a Good Reason for That Don't You Think," one admonishes.
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Critics such as Edward Said (who took Disraeli's axiom as an epigraph to his influential study, "Orientalism") have indicted scholars and travellers as the outriders of a predatory imperialism in Asia and the Middle East.
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Perrotta's fiction is not a showcase for dazzling prose; although "Little Children" opens with an epigraph from "Madame Bovary," its sentences don't appear to have been painstakingly chiselled in the course of hours, like Flaubert's.
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That book, which began with the simple Russian epigraph "To the victims," took a prosecutorial stance toward the Bolsheviks and their leader, Vladimir Lenin, who still commanded a certain respect and sympathy among Western historians.
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But so thorough is Ms. Ruff's investment in her character that we can read something like the thoughts that McCullers gave Berenice in the novel, which come to hover like an epigraph over this production.
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So beyond the memory hacking, its pacing goes something like: Albert Camus epigraph -> platforming sequence -> hunt for health upgrade -> dialog about economic inequality and the human cost of revolution -> light navigational puzzle -> dozen-person brawl.
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There are divider pages denoting every jump between the 1958 and the 113 timelines, and each has a melodramatic epigraph from William Carlos Williams, Virgil, a classic rock song, or the 1973 Scorsese film Mean Streets.
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The epigraph to Kelley's third novel, " dem ," is written in the International Phonetic Alphabet—written, that is, to capture the way people actually speak, even though, in doing so, it thwarts the way people usually read.
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He did it with an epigraph from Nabokov on the birth of literature, a voice-over from William Blake, and quotes from the French philosopher Roger Caillois and the Nobel Prize-winning German author Elias Canetti.
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Each section is preceded by an epigraph from a literary figure: W. B. Yeats, Hermann Hesse, Rainer Maria Rilke, Robert Louis Stevenson, Matthew Arnold, Stephen Crane, James Baldwin, William Hazlitt, Wright Morris and T. S. Eliot.
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We know as early as the epigraph that Bob will flee the sugar plantation where he is in bondage, so the 43 pages dedicated to his deliberations on the matter sag despite some excellent writing therein.
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Even the epigraph of a new anthology resonates: "When the country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir," the author Thomas Paine wrote.
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The conclusion is handled with skill and delicacy, and in a fashion that recalls the line from Webster's "The Duchess of Malfi" that provides the novel's epigraph: "Like diamonds, we are cut with our own dust."
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Ms. Posin provides an epigraph from Robert Frost's poem about the world ending in fire or ice, but her polarities are as jumbled (intentionally, it appears) as the props (by Todd Strong) and costumes (by A. Christina Giannini).
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WHEN John Locke chose Cicero's dictum "salus populi suprema lex esto" ("let the public welfare be the supreme law") as the epigraph for his Second Treatise on Government, it's safe to say he wasn't thinking about toilet rules.
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"Behave," a reimagining of the romance between the scientists John B. Watson and Rosalie Rayner, begins with a warning epigraph from Watson's 1925 classic "Behaviorism," the landmark text that considered human behavior as a set of trainable impulses.
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" (As HBO teases in the first episode of His Dark Materials, in Lyra's world, there are indeed many other worlds.) In The Secret Commonwealth's epigraph, Blake declares that "Every thing possible to be believ'd is an image of truth.
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The first four stories concern themselves with the erotic and its complications; the fifth is preceded by an epigraph from Handel's "Orlando" — "Lascia Amor e siegui Marte," declaring a shift in allegiance from love to the god of war.
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Gaillardet wondered whether a rock could be described as an agent, and pointed out several other flourishes that were "very rare" in scientific articles, such as the literary epigraph and the fact that a whole sentence was in parentheses.
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So the overriding arc of Cameraperson as memoir is what she says from the start, in the epigraph: a quest to sort out why these particular images, left on the cutting room floor, have stuck with her motivates the discovery.
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Just in case you missed it in the epigraph, this is repeated several times in the game too That sounds a lot like the gang's early glory days we keep hearing about in both Red Dead Redemption 22 and 22.
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The title of my book comes from one of the ballads, in which she's referred to as the Princess of Hell, and there's another ballad that I quote as the epigraph to the book where she talks about butchering men.
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A first edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby," minus one of the rare-book world's most sought-after dust jackets, was on sale for 20113,000 euros beneath a label reading "I must have you," a nod to the novel's opening epigraph.
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" Speculating on his generation's colossal ambitions and eventual place in literary history, in a letter that Newman quotes as an epigraph, Lowell wrote Roethke that "there must be a kind of glory to it all that people coming later will wonder at.
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Joy is loosely based on the story of Miracle Mop inventor and OG entrepreneur Joy Mangano, and the opening epigraph reads "inspired by the true story of daring women..."To be a woman, and to imagine greatness for yourself, is to dare.
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"World is crazier and more of it than we think, / Incorrigibly plural," reads the epigraph to Maggie O'Farrell's seventh novel — a quote from Louis MacNeice's poem "Snow" that might serve as an appetizer (or warning, depending on your proclivities) for what's to come.
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He was inspired by a quotation from G.K. Chesterton that Mr. Gaiman uses as the epigraph of the book: "Fairy tales are more than true: Not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten."
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Many cite my epigraph above, where 17-year-old Veronica (Kristen Bell) explains how she was raped and drugged at a house party to the town's local sheriff: venal, corrupt, and also the show's consistent symbol of how rape culture works in practice.
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" At this point, the reader should remember the novel's epigraph, from "The Curtain Blown by the Breeze," a short story by Muriel Spark: "She became a tall lighthouse sending out kindly beams which some took for welcome instead of warnings against the rocks.
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" Before accusing her of pandering to the analytics of the best-seller list, note that this book's epigraph is from Elizabeth Bishop's indelible poem "Casabianca," which begins: Love's the boy stood on the burning decktrying to recite "The boy stood onthe burning deck.
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Though she ironically alludes to Ham in an epigraph from the 19th-century explorer John Hanning Speke — "I profess accurately to describe naked Africa … a striking existing proof of the Holy Scriptures" — the joke is how thoroughly her novel snubs his Victorian myopia.
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A nonsensical, frantic, glitching landscape, this game, in someone else's hands, might have felt ethereal and purely visual, but its epigraph – "I don't want to be out here" – and the deliberate plodding of my footsteps as I walked, reminded me I was playing a person.
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The team has two months to complete its inquiry, after which a special bench will decide what action to take, the court said in a ruling that opens with the epigraph from Mario Puzo's novel "The Godfather": "Behind every great fortune there is a crime".
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Each individual work bears a title that serves as something like an epigraph; together they capture the tragedy of a year in transition at home, in which the optimism of the Prague Spring was ultimately crushed by Soviet tanks, while addressing concurrent events elsewhere in the world.
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By the time Madonna had completed just the first two songs, she had already presented an epigraph from James Baldwin — "Artists are here to disturb the peace" — that was knocked out onstage by one of the concert's recurring figures, a woman (sometimes Madonna herself) at a typewriter.
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The metaphor of parallel universes pervades the novel from the epigraph to the final line (in which human breath is seen as "tiny bubbles which expanded and split or collided into yet others, each single sphere translucent and aflame with the light of the dawning sun").
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Patrick Cockburn's new book, Chaos & Caliphate , begins with an epigraph from W.B. Yeats: "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world..." Despite being one of the most exhausted quotations in modern poetry it feels appropriate, mapping the tone and subject of Cockburn's journalism.
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Then there's the pitch-perfect opening epigraph that reads like a bedtime prayer as written by Tenacious D. More than the ultra-stylized visuals, more than the brutal violence, and more than the actual words being said, the language of Mandy is music and Jóhannsson's writing in that language is superb.
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" The Newsweek reporter-turned-novelist Ward Just prefaced "To What End," his 1968 personal account of a war that was "slipping beyond irony to tragedy," with an epigraph by Harold Pinter about the malleability of the real and the unreal: "The more the acute the experience the less articulate the expression.
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Given that the epigraph of the book is a quote by Yvette Pierpaoli, the humanitarian who died while assisting refugees from Kosovo in 1999 (and who was Lemaître's mother-in-law), adults will understand that the most pressing context of the book is the need for tolerance toward displaced people around the world.
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An epigraph before the movie warns us not to take anything we're about to see too seriously — probably because, while Hughes was a real figure, the movie compresses various events of his life and inserts fictional characters, eventually taking on the cast of an old, fictional Hollywood narrative closer to Sunset Boulevard than a biopic.
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Vladimir Dragan of Montenegro," the author has placed this poignant passage as an epigraph: "On the 6th of April 2012, to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the start of the siege of Sarajevo by Bosnian Serb forces, 11,541 red chairs were laid out in rows along the 800 meters of the Sarajevo high street.
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Bookshelf The epigraph of Mary Cummings's book about the trial of the century — the early 20th, at least — pretty much sets the tone for the tawdry, misogynistic and, even in the 21st century, painfully familiar narrative that follows in the latest recaps of Stanford White's murder, one by her and another by Simon Baatz.
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So is the epigraph you pass on your way back up the stairs into daylight and life: And in their death they were not divided They were swifter than eagles They were stronger than lions II Samuel 1:23 Domaine National de St.-Cloud is in the commune of Marnes-la-Coquette, outside Paris.
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In Nishimura's psychedelic "Epigraph I, Dash Toward Life" (2017), the crumpled frame of a bicycle floats over an active background of splattered light-blue, lavender, and muted cantaloupe orange, and in "Death Flowers" (2015), a cluster of thickly painted, golden-yellow spirals creates a richly textured batch of mystery plants poking out of a large, squat vase.
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The narrative infelicities that don't stand up to scrutiny — for instance, the idea that any person would tell his life story the way Kihrin does — are shored up by the scholar's presence, and his epigraph stating that he's condensed and edited some things to make it a more enjoyable read for the mysterious royal personage to whom he has delivered it.
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In particular, he fingers her successor, John Major, for his disloyalty; he takes as his epigraph "When lovely woman stoops to folly, / And finds too late that men betray," and he writes of the "unforgettable, tragic spectacle of a woman's greatness overborne by the littleness of men"—ignoring, as she did herself, the truth that loyalty has to be earned as well as demanded.
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He seldom engages in depth with any political thinker except to note that the thinker diagnosed a society in decline: The epigraph is Marxist intellectual Antonio Gramsci's oft-quoted adage that "the old is dying and the new has yet to be born," but by the second chapter, Douthat is asking us whether "the under-assimilated, half-radicalized inhabitants" of the Paris slums "are really the workers that [France] needs," a sentiment of which one doubts Gramsci would approve.
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A book for him or her is not an expression or a series of expressions, but literally a volume, a prism with six rectangular sides made of thin sheets of papers which should include a cover, an inside cover, an epigraph in italics, a preface, nine or ten parts with some verses at the beginning, a table of contents, an ex libris with an hourglass and a Latin phrase, a brief list of errata, some blank pages, a colophon and a publication notice: objects that are known to constitute the art of writing.
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