Transgression

Question 1

Poor Things, Alasdair Gray, 1992

Answer 1

“It would cast a shadow upon her life to know she is a surgical fabrication. Only you and I know the truth, and I doubt if you believe it.”

Question 2

Barthes, Death of the Author, 1968

Answer 2

“The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture”

Question 3

Muriel Spark, Loitering with Intent, 1981

Answer 3

“I felt sure, now, that not only was Sir Quentin exerting his influence to suppress my ‘Warrender Chase’ but he was using, stealing, my myth”

Question 4

Poor Things 2

Answer 4

“She stared hard at Baxter, her face growing thinner, the pupils of her eyes expanding to completely blacken the irises. “Where is my child, Baxter?””

Question 5

Foucalt, Preface to Transgression, 1977

Answer 5

“Transgression is an action which involves the limit, that narrow zone of a line where it displays the flash of its passage”

Question 6

Loitering 2

Answer 6

“Sir Quentin was conforming more and more to the character of my Warrender Chase; it was amazing, I could have invented him, I could have invented all of them”