Why do we do these things? Because we are alive . . . We do these things because we are dying. Can you blame us?
Lauren Rothery, from Television

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Why do we do these things? Because we are alive . . . We do these things because we are dying. Can you blame us?
Lauren Rothery, from Television
The epigraph from The Universe in Verse: 15 Portals To Wonder Through Science & Poetry by Maria Popova
from "Three Versions of Judas" (Jorge Luis Borges, 1944)
“For where would we be
If love were not stronger than poetry
And poetry were not stronger than love.”
—Miroslav Holub, epigraph to Resonance: Poems by Richard Jackson (Ashland Poetry Press, 2010)
Something I tried doing with the final series of The Tower was to experiment with the idea of adding an epigraph at the start of the story.
I've always loved the use of epigraphs, taking a quote from another piece of art, or a speech, or a song, and using to set the tone for another story. It's art interacting with other art.
So, at the start of Summit, you hear a voice that seems to be coming from the Tower itself, quoting from Chapter 9 of Wuthering Heights
(It's kind of a mild spoiler so I'll stick the quote under here)
Through it all
Through it all
Through it all
Through it all
-Quadeca, “FORGONE”
For The Loser
Rest your head, my child,
You saw them all.
The good times, the bad times,
The days sometimes felt like
A cornucopia of black sludge,
But you never knew.
You ran like all four winds
Blew in your stride.
They loved you.
Your name brought them luck.
And so you can’t imagine
The day you were found
Folded over.
Dense muscle that might
Have had a few more hidden in their
Salmon-pink folds.
You can’t imagine the cry,
Piercing and sharp,
When they saw you there,
Straw scattered around you like
The light filtering in through the stable roof.
They loved you.
They still do.
They shook you.
They thought horses slept like that for
One beautiful childish moment.
They couldn’t imagine
The loser might lose one last time.
I hope he’s as kind to you as he was to my dogs.
I hope you went in one go.
I hope the stench left behind christens those stables
“The Blessed Loser’s Stables.”
You should get to remain
Just as much as I.
Twilight book covers x Epigraphs🍎♟️🥀