Acknowledgments

The tale of The Brother XII and De Courcy Island in chapter nine comes from:

British Columbia’s Gulf Islands, by Marge and Ted Mueller. (The Mountaineers Press, 2000) and The Devil of De Courcy Island, The Brother XII, by Ron MacIsaac, Clark, Don, and Charles Lillard. (Victoria,B.C.: Press Porcepic, Ltd., 1989)

The definition of the word “idiot,” comes from: A Dictionary of Idiocy, by Stephen Bayley. (Gibson Square Books, London, 2003)

 

Quotes:

“A man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.”

Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium Eater.

“When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.”

Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband, 1895, act II.

“The robb’d, that smiles, steals something from the thief.”

William Shakespeare. Othello. Act i.Sc.3. l.208.

 

Other Works Consulted:

The Myth of Sisyphus, Albert Camus.

The Bible, God, as told to twelve men.