Word: epigraphs
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...figure that Weber had imagined him to be. Throughout the book, Weber relies on analysis of Balthus' paintings as practically his only source in constructing his life, which provides the reader with only a weak characterization and superficial understanding of Balthus. Unfortunately, Weber appears to take to heart the epigraph from Oscar Wilde that appears at the beginning of the first chapter: "I treated art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction...
...example, in a recent note reminding my daughter to feed the dog, I began with an epigraph from Goethe...
Perhaps the tragedy of Hemingway's legacy isthat it appeals with visceral force only those ofhis generation, the young men who would dance withbulls in cafes, imitating the master. The crucialfact is that the famous epigraph to The Sun AlsoRises--Stein's "You are all a Lost Generation"--isneither pretentious nor empty: for Hemingway andfor many of his contemporaries, the assertionthrough life and through writing of theunflinching code of sportsmen’s honor was not asilly return to childhood but a search for a codeof behavior that meant something in a post-Warworld where the land of childhood...
...epigraph to The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald used an oddly charming snatch of verse...
...What happens in the heart simply happens," Hughes writes at one point, a comment that can serve as an epigraph or epitaph for all the words surrounding it. For Hughes' account of his life with Plath rests on two complementary premises: she was destined to kill herself because of her preoccupation with her father, who died when she was eight; and Hughes was powerless to help...