“Will Postwar be nothing but “events,” newly created one moment to the next? No links? Is it the end of history?”
― Gravity's Rainbow
― Gravity's Rainbow
“A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now.”
― Gravity’s Rainbow
― Gravity’s Rainbow
“Decisions are never really made—at best they manage to emerge, from a chaos of peeves, whims, hallucinations and all-round assholery.”
― Gravity's Rainbow
― Gravity's Rainbow
“They lived for different futures, but they were each other's unrecognized halves, and what fascination between them did come to pass was lit up, beyond question, with grace.”
― Against the Day
― Against the Day
“Temporal bandwidth” is the width of your present, your now. It is the familiar “Δt” considered as a dependent variable. The more you dwell in the past and in the future, the thicker your bandwidth, the more solid your persona. But the narrower your sense of Now, the more tenuous you are. It may get to where you’re having trouble remembering what you were doing five minutes ago, or even—as Slothrop now—what you’re doing here,”
― Gravity's Rainbow
― Gravity's Rainbow
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