CHAPTER 6: MIRACLE COUNTRY

In the winter of 1861-62…the First People began to starve. 

Chalfant, Willie Arthur. The Story of Inyo: Revised Addition . W.A. Chalfant, 1933, pp. 96-98

“Its beauty is evil.”

Loring, Frederick W. “Into the Valley of Death.” Appleton’s Journal of Literature, Science, and Art, vol. 6, no. 138, 18 Nov. 1871, pp. 574–575.

“When it stops,” says the ex-priest, “you’ll know you’ve heard it all your life.”

McCarthy, Cormac. Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness in the West. Picador, 2015, p. 130

…Tolstoy asked, “Why? Wherefore? What for?” and received no answer. 

James, William. “The Sick Soul.” The Varieties of Religious Experience. Kessinger Publishing, 2004

“The world now looks remote, strange, sinister, uncanny,”…”Things are not as they were, and I am changed.”

ibid. 

James got these examples from La Tristesse et la Joie by G.Dumas, 1900

“Many of the old roads, and, one time, shady lanes of the little valley…except to scenes of desolation best left unvisited.”

Parcher, Marie Louise. Dry Ditches. The Parchers, 1970

“How can I learn aught when naught I know? Being naught I came to life: once more shall I be what I was.”

James, William. “The Sick Soul.” The Varieties of Religious Experience. Kessinger Publishing, 2004

James cites  the Greeks: Edipus in Colonus, 1225 / The Anthology 

“And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?”

Shakespeare, William. Hamlet. 

“We are here on this darkling plain.”

Arnold, Matthew. “Dover Beach,” a lyric poem written around 1850

“…as a piano-string stops sounding when the damper falls.”

James, William. “The Sick Soul.” The Varieties of Religious Experience. Kessinger Publishing, 2004

“…but the mountains were mute.”

Parcher, Marie Louise. Dry Ditches. The Parchers, 1970