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Gravity’s Rainbow

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The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton

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Oblivion

by David Foster Wallace

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Grace Camille said: " If you've never wept and want to, have a child. Break your heart inside and something will a child is the twangy song the Daddy hears again as if the radio's lady was almost there with him, looking down at what they had done, though hours later what If you've never wept and want to, have a child. Break your heart inside and something will a child is the twangy song the Daddy hears again as if the radio's lady was almost there with him, looking down at what they had done, though hours later what the Daddy most won't forgive is how badly he wanted a cigarette right then. (116)

But tell me, child: Have you begun yet to be afraid? Have you begun yet then to plan for the day when they wake to a truth you already know: that you are not half so complete as they believe? (138)

I spent all my time trying to get them to think I was dry and jaded as well, doing things like yawning and looking at my nails and saying things like, 'Am I happy? is one of those questions that, if it has got to be asked, more or less dictates its own answer,' etc. (142)

The fraudulence paradox was that the more time and effort you put into trying to appear impressive or attractive to other people, the less impressive or attractive you felt inside - you were a fraud. And the more of a fraud you felt like, the harder you tried to convey an impressive or likable image of yourself so that other people wouldn't find out what a hollow, fraudulent person you really were. (147)

Dr. G would later say that the whole 'my life flashed before me' phenomenon at the end is more like being a whitecap on the surface of the ocean, meaning that it's only at the moment you subside and start sliding back in that you're really aware there's an ocean at all. When you're up and out there as a whitecap you might talk and act as if you know you're just a whitecap on the ocean, but deep down you don't really think there is an ocean at all. (152)

The conflict between the subjective centrality of our own lives versus our awarenesses of its object insignificance. Atwater knew - as did everyone at Style, though by some strange unspoken consensus it was never said aloud- that this was the single great informing conflict of the American psyche. The management of insignificance. It was the great syncretic bond of US monoculture. (284) ...more "

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