“ I'm a Baroque person. More than Baroque, I'm a Rococo person. I don't draw straight lines. Nuno Roque
“ History and beauty lie in the baroque wrinkles of old cathedrals. mosques, synagogues, temples and faces whose stories are told without a single word. Khang Kijarro Nguyen
“ Others, tiring of the sound of Buxtehude and Bach for hours on end, would complain there was no tune. That was exactly the thing he liked best about a fugue, the fact that it could not be sung. A fugu… Kate Grenville
“ The conventional use of words and of narrative structure is deliberately subverted in decadent fiction; language deviates from the established norms in an attempt to reproduce pathology on a textual l… Asti Hustvedt
“ ...crossed the room to where a selection of implements was arranged on a table top. These could have been mistaken for the trade tools of a cook, physician, or torturer, save for the fact that the sur… Neal Stephenson
