Homework-wise, why are you asking?

Tad Williams, in his Otherland series, begins each section with fictional news feeds which illustrate the atmosphere and issues in his created world without his having to give a lot of in-story exposition. These epigraphs are very effective. I can’t imagine how much longer these books would be if he hadn’t employed this device.

@gailcalled I’m just asking out of curiosity. The question was prompted by my picking up an old copy of one of my books – The People Shapers by Vance Packard – the epigraph for which reads :- We can choose to use our growing knowledge to enslave people in ways never dreamed of before, depersonalizing them, controlling them by means so carefully selected that they will perhaps never be aware of their loss of personhood. – Carl Rogers, humanistic psychologist. And so I got to wondering if anyone else out there would care to share any of their experience of ‘interesting’ epigraphs.

@lloydbird: My apologies for having been overly suspicious.