epigraph exhibition

selected epigraphs from books, film, and video games

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from I Look Divine (Christopher Coe, 1987)

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from The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga (Jessica Oreck, 2014)

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from Geography III (Elizabeth Bishop, 1976)

[sivavakkiyar]

quoted as the introductory epigram to Edward Said’s Culture and Imperialism

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All of us are by nature wild beasts. Our duty as human beings is to become like trainers who keep their animals in check, and even teach them to perform tasks alien to their bestiality. "The Moon Over the Mountain", Atsushi Nakajima

from Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2004)

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from Gardening in the Dark (Laura Kasischke, 2004)

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from Dawn of an Evil Millennium (Damon Packard, 1988)

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from Skin (Kathe Koja, 1993)

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from Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem (Silicon Knights, 2002)

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from Between the Ocean and the Clouds (Kai Perrignon, 2023)

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from Laid Off from the Synesthesia Factory (Katherine Morayati, 2015)

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from Demand the Impossible: Science fiction and the utopian imagination, chapter 1: "Introduction: the critical utopia" (Tom Moylan, 1986)

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from Blackacre (Monica Youn, 2016), section II

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from Jigsaw (Graham Nelson, 1995)

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from Metagaming (Stephanie Boluk & Patrick Lemieux, 2017)

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from From Hell, chapter 12: "The apprehensions of Mr. Lees" (Alan Moore & Eddie Campbell, 1996)

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Jonathan swift, quoted as the epigram in Markson’s This Is Not A Novel