Herzog

"He might once have had the makings of a clever character, but he had chosen to be dreamy instead, and the sharpies cleaned him out."

"He dreaded the depths of feeling he would eventually have to face, when he could no longer call upon his eccentricities for relief."

"Dear Doktor Professor Heidegger, I should like to know what you mean by the expression "the fall into the quotidian." When did this fall occur? Where were we standing when it happened?"

Saul Bellow, Herzog, pages 3, 10, 49.

Walking my riddels

"Walker is my name and I am the same. Riddley Walker. Walking my riddels where ever theyve took me and walking them now on this paper the same.

I dont think it makes no diffrents where you start the telling of a thing. You never know where it begun realy. No moren you know where you begun your oan self. You myt know the place and day and time of day when you ben beartht. You myt even know the place and day and time when you ben got. That dont mean nothing tho. You stil dont know where you begun."

Russell Hoban, Riddley Walker p.8