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Epigraphs

The first time I heard the voice I was terrified. It was noon, in summer, in my father’s garden…. I seldom heard the voice when it was not accompanied by a light. Usually it was very bright.

— JOAN OF ARC, FROM THE TRANSCRIPT OF HER TRIAL

Thomas Aquinas invented a third order of duration distinct from time and eternity, which he called aevum…. It coexists with temporal events, at the moment of occurrence, being, as was said, like a stick in a river. Aevum, you might say, is the time order of novels.

— FRANK KERMODE, THE SENSE OF AN ENDING

It shall be called “Bottom’s Dream,” because it hath no bottom.

— NICK BOTTOM, IN WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM