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“It sounds kind of close, don’t you think?” When Fleetwood shrugged, “I mean, you’ve had . . . encounters with elephants?” “Now and then.” “You have an elephant gun with you?” “No. You?” “So, this one charges us, what do we do?” “Depends ...more
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Helen DeWitt
“There is a character in The Count of Monte Cristo who digs through solid rock for years and finally gets somewhere: he finds himself in another cell. It was that kind of moment.”
Helen DeWitt, The Last Samurai

Thomas Pynchon
“Dismiss the thought,” protested Lindsay from a certain equine altitude, “for it would make us no better than common thieves.”
Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day

Sarah Scoles
“It reminds me of stepping into a gay bar when you’re gay: Your cells seem to relax, because every neon-lit person knows you in a way straight people can’t, even if you’ve never met, even if you never will, even if you’re very different. And for once, you can fully let go of the fear of being the self that simmers beneath the calm banality you present to the rest of the world.”
Sarah Scoles, They Are Already Here: UFO Culture and Why We See Saucers

Thomas Pynchon
“This person greeted the Cohen by raising his left hand, then spreading the fingers two and two away from the thumb so as to form the Hebrew letter shin, signifying the initial letter of one of the pre-Mosaic (that is, plural) names of God, which may never be spoken. “Basically wishing long life and prosperity,” explained the Cohen, answering with the same gesture.”
Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day

“All of which is to say, the way we make sense of things is rarely to engage the things. We don’t confront the things before us as something different; we confront them as something we already know, as if everything fits into pre-ordained buckets of knowledge, as if those buckets weren’t themselves created, as if buckets and categories themselves weren’t buckets or categories that might impede knowing.”
Daniel Coffeen, Reading the Way of Things: Towards a New Technology of Making Sense

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