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“One epoch's "popular culture" is another's esoterica.”
― Alfred Appel, Jr.

“But time does not stand still, though the Sun be lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

“The rub is that any work of nonsense abounds with so many inviting symbols that you can start with any assumption you please about the author and easily build up an impressive case for it. Consider, for example, the scene in which Alice seizes the end of the White King's pencil and begins scribbling for him. In five minutes one can invent six different interpretations.”
― Martin Gardner, The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition

“I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.”
― J.D. Salinger, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction