joe

“I noticed it the other night hearing Rabbit do a commercial. No matter who's talking, the different power spectra are the same, give or take a small percentage. So you and Rabbit have something in common now. More than that. Everybody who says the same words is the same person if the spectra are the same only they happen differently in time, you dig? But the time is arbitrary. You pick your zero point anywhere you want, that way you can shuffle each person's time line sideways till they all coincide. Then you'd have this big, God, maybe a couple hundred million chorus saying "rich chocolaty goodness" together and it would all be the same voice.”
― Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

“That the poor little fellow because he lied too often was finally eaten up by a real beast is quite incidental.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“What a scholar one might be if one knew well only some half a dozen books.”
― Gustave Flaubert