It's called Kiss For The Whole World, a quotation from Schiller's Ode To Joy, which Beethoven set to music at the climax of his Ninth Symphony: an image of universal rapture, communion with the universe in love.
Think of that classic dorm-room poster, with the photograph of Einstein and the quotation: "God doesn't play dice with the universe".
Latin phrases, church Slavonic, Chekhovian language, modern obscenities, forensic documents, and endless literary quotations are all elements of Mr Shishkin's linguistic universe.Within these crisscross streams of consciousness are a series of eloquent and gripping novellas.
Isn't that OK? 7. One last quotation from you: "My younger son is a junior and the universe of women he can marry is limitless".
"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice," Martin Luther King said, paraphrasing a longer quotation from transcendentalist Theodore Parker.
There are also the earnest, spiritual or philosophical bios, adult-yearbook quotations that strive to say something profound about society or the universe.
To take it further, a hint about the next breakthrough comes in a quotation from the British physicist David Bohm: "In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe".
(Possibly apocryphal quotation).
Springsteen in quotation marks?
