Books & Authors

This is a list of other books and authors mentioned in Matigari with a note of reference.

I have a garden of my own,
But so with roses overgrown,
And lilies, that you would it guess,
To be a little wilderness,
And all the springtime of the year

The butler who had opened the door had looked past Condorex with as much suspicion as his enrheumed eyes could hold, at a knife-grinding machine that happened to be standing in the road; for he himself had witnessed the quarrel between the knife grinder and the Friend of Man that Canning writes of, and he felt too frail to deal with anything like that nowadays.

She had turned aside from him because she could not bear the force of his rage full-face; and rubbed her cheek against a fine edition of Catullus as if it were a pillow, and she tired to death.

‘Here is a candle to light you to bed. Here is a chopper to chop off your head….’ God, what a sinister rhythm those words tread out on the ear! It is the very gait of a murderer, stealing behind his victim! To think that is part of a nursery rhyme, that tender infants are instructed to move in such a measure!