Excerpts "Loose Ends" Dwight Garner. "What Writers Say about Plague Season" NYT April 12, 2020
NYT Today. Selected Quotes from . “ What Writers Say About Plague Season : Loose Ends, Dwight Garner. “ It was an uncertain Spring ”, Virginia Woolf. “The Years”. “ Lord! How sad a sight it is to see the streets empty of people .” Samuel Pepys, Diary “ A friend of mine says this is the beginning of the end of the global order ." – Rachel Cusk. “Coventry”. “ One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.” – Gwendolyn Brooks, “in the Mecca”. “That’s the world out there, little green apples and infectious diseases .” Don De Lillo “The Angel Esmeralda” “ All is infection, mother…We shall sit quietly in this room, and I think we will be spared …” Rita Dove, “Fiammetta Breaks Her Peace”. “I have always thought of the whole of life as a kind of disaster area .” J.G. Ballard, “The Drought”. “If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company. ” - Attributed to Jean-Paul Sartre. “ If you don’t kn...