1. The Human Condition (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1958), p. 2.

2. Quoted by Stuart Kaminsky in Don Siegel: Director (New York: Curtis Books, 1974), p. 104.

3. For a more detailed discussion of this split between the rational and sensory or emotional aspects of man, see Vivian Sobchack's The Limits of Infinity (New York: A. S. Barnes, 1980), and Lane Roth's "The Rejection of Rationalism in Recent Science Fiction Films," Philosophy in Context , 11(1981), 42-55.

4. Violence and the Sacred , trans. Patrick Gregory (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1977), p. 160. As Girard notes elsewhere, "mimetic desire cannot be let loose without breeding a midsummer night of jealousy and strife," "Myth and Ritual in Shakespeare," in Textual Strategies , ed. Josué V. Harari (Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 1979), p. 192.

5. The Firmament of Time (New York: Atheneum, 1966), p. 72.

6. The Firmament of Time , p. 114.

7. In addition to Violence and the Sacred , see Girard's Deceit, Desire, and the Novel , trans. Yvonne Freccero (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1966).

8. The Dream and the Underworld (New York: Harper & Row, 1979), p. 4.

9. The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre , trans. Richard Howard (Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 1975), p. 167.