Vincent Mousseau quoted Sans Souci by Dionne Brand
When Dionne Brand's acclaimed first novel, the New York Times Notable Book In Another Place, …
It occurred to me that death, its frequency, causes, sequence and application to written history, favours, even anticipates, certain latitudes. The number of mourners, their enthusiasms, their entertainments, their widows' weeds, all mapped by a cartographer well schooled in pre-Galileo geography. I'm waxing. Don't stop me. I couldn't tell you the things I know.
— Sans Souci by Dionne Brand (Page 143)