John Pipkin Quote

Sketches of mad skies spilling stars caught in spiraling gyres, diagrams for constructing sextants tall as a man and armillary spheres to mimic the motion of the cosmos. He decides that he must have all of it, that he will cram the little observatory with maps and charts, clocks and compasses, and instruments for bringing the sky nearer.

John Pipkin

Sketches of mad skies spilling stars caught in spiraling gyres, diagrams for constructing sextants tall as a man and armillary spheres to mimic the motion of the cosmos. He decides that he must have all of it, that he will cram the little observatory with maps and charts, clocks and compasses, and instruments for bringing the sky nearer.

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About John Pipkin

John George Pipkin (born 1967) is an American author, born in Baltimore, Maryland. He holds a PhD in British Romantic Literature from Rice University in Houston, Texas; an MA in English from UNC-Chapel Hill, and a BA from Washington & Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. He has published two novels to good reviews and awards.