From Kevin Brockmeier's Introduction:
Sitting under trees on or before noon is, in a number of romances, tantamount to inviting a supernatural visitation. The precise significance of a grafted tree is unclear, though notionally such a tree represents a coincidence of the natural with the unnatural.
~from a footnote to "Sir Orfeo," Norton's Middle English Romances, edited by Stephen H.A. Shepherd
I know what the world has done to my brother and how narrowly he has survived it. And I know, which is much worse, and this is the crime of which I accuse my country and my countrymen, and for which neither I nor time nor history will ever forgive them, that they have destroyed and are destroying hundreds of thousands of lives and do not know it and do not want to know it.
~James Baldwin, "My Dungeon Shook," The Fire Next Time
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