Цитаты из книги Mason & Dixon

"As to journey west," adds the Revd helpfully, "in the same sense as the Sun, is to live, raise Children, grow older, and die, carried along by the Stream of the Day,- whilst to turn Eastward, is somehow to resist time and age, to work against the Wind, seek ever the dawn, even, as who can say, defy Death." (одно из возможных объяснений названия романа Atd?)

The Business of the World is Trade and Death, and you must engage with that unpleasantness, as the price of your not-at-all-assur'd Moment of Purity

as to whose Author's Identity, one may grow confus'd, so ubiquitous here are signs of the Infernal.

"Dutch Ado about nothing."

Time is the Space that may not be seen.

There is a Crash and a great voic'd Roar.

Kepler said that Astrology is Astronomy's wanton little sister, who goes out and sells herself that Astronomy may keep her Virtue.

I suggest that more than either, 'tis the awareness of living upon a Slumbering Creature, compar'd to whose Size, we figure not quite as Lice, that keeps us uniquely attentive to Life so precarious, and what Civility is truly necessary, to carry it on.