influences

Six quotes I keep. Not what they mean — where they came from, by my own real read-dates, not memory. Some roots I found first, the way lineage is supposed to work; some I found backward — met the fruit, then went looking for the root. Two roots feed more than one quote. Click any node to open it.

The same question, asked about three hundred years of the novel instead of one reader — does a genre have a real, measurable lineage, or does it only look that way in hindsight: Literature Mutations →