Word: quincey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...probably ever know just what inspired this remarkable group of etchings. Certainly the vast vaults derive from his study of Roman baths, the massive masonry perhaps from his childhood memories of Venice's sea walls. But down through time the Carceri have fascinated men as various as De Quincey, Coleridge, Victor Hugo and Aldous Huxley...
...Dorothy Quincey...
...Stoker's tale, Dracula is destroyed in a combined Anglo-American gesture: Jonathan Marker, an Englishman, decapitates Dracula with his great kukri knife in the same moment that Quincey Morris, a young Texan, drives his bowie knife into Dracula's heart. Stakes are used against vampires in Stoker's novel, but only against ravishingly attractive females...
...Edmund Wilson's famous grumble that thriller reading is "a kind of vice that for sheer silliness and minor harmfulness, rates between crossword puzzles and smoking." At its rare and satisfying best, the well-wrought detective story puts its readers in mind of an older critic, Thomas De Quincey, who once ventured a thesis of "Murder as One of the Fine Arts...
Thomas De Quincey's mother, who ought to have known one when she saw one, called the infant Thomas Babington Macaulay a "baby genius." From the age of three, "Clever Tom" was a compulsive reader whose idea of a wild childhood game was to act out Homer, reserving for himself the role of Achilles. At six, the future author of the five-volume History of England was at work on a compendium of world history...