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Gravity’s Rainbow

by Thomas Pynchon

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Oct 27, 2025 10:08PM

“Though a priest was inspired to teach the deaf in order to bring them to the table of Christian salvation, they ended up building their own table. Because for them, salvation was never a helping hand, but a talking one.”
― Moshe Kasher, Subculture Vulture: A Memoir in Six Scenes

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“If Men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and the next place, oblige it to control itself.”
― James Madison

tags: american-history, james-madison, the-federalist

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