The Antidote (25 page)

‘In our tradition':
Quoted in Judy King, ‘Los Dias de los Muertos', in
Mexico Connect,
accessible at
mexconnect.com/articles/1427-los-dias-de-los-muertos-the-days-of-the-dead

‘a touchstone moment':
Steven Edward Jones,
Satire and Romanticism
(New

York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000), 196. 205
‘I had not a dispute but a disquisition':
Quoted in ibid., 195-6.

‘He will never come at a truth':
Quoted in Jacob Wigod, ‘Negative Capability and Wise Passiveness',
PMLA 67
(1952): 383-90.

‘openture':
All Paul Pearsall quotations are from
Awe: The Delights and Dangers of Our Eleventh Emotion
(Deerfield Beach, Florida: Health Communications, 2007).

‘Proficiency and the results of proficiency'
Aldous Huxley,
Complete Essays 1939-1956,
225.

‘A good traveller has no fixed plans':
Lao Tzu,
Tao Te Ching: A New English Version,
interpreted by Stephen Mitchell (New York: Harper Collins, 1991), 27.