“...a million bureaucrats are diligently plotting death and some of them even know it...”
― Gravity’s Rainbow
― Gravity’s Rainbow
“He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.”
― V.
― V.
“If the tower is everywhere and the knight of deliverance no proof against its magic,what else?”
― The Crying of Lot 49
― The Crying of Lot 49
“It is simply wrong to begin with a theme, symbol or other abstract unifying agent, and then try to force characters and events to conform to it.”
― Slow Learner: Early Stories
― Slow Learner: Early Stories
“What more do they want? She asks this seriously, as if there's a real conversion factor between information and lives. Well, strange to say, there is. Written down in the Manual, on file at the War Department. Don't forget the real business of the War is buying and selling. The murdering and violence are self-policing, and can be entrusted to non-professionals. The mass nature of wartime death is useful in many ways. It serves as a spectacle, as a diversion from the real movements of the War. It provides raw material to be recorded into History, so that children may be taught History as sequences of violence, battle after battle, and be more prepared for the adult world. Best of all, mass death's a stimulus to just ordinary folks, little fellows, to try 'n' grab a piece of that Pie while they're still here to gobble it up. The true war is a celebration of markets. Organic markets, carefully styled "black" by the professionals, spring up everywhere. Scrip, Sterling, Reichsmarks, continue to move, severe as classical ballet, inside their antiseptic marble chambers. But out here, down here among the people, the truer currencies come into being. So, Jews are negotiable. Every bit as negotiable as cigarettes, cunt, or Hersey bars.”
― Gravity’s Rainbow
― Gravity’s Rainbow
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