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"As day requires night and night requires day so meaning requires absurdity and absurdity requires meaning. Noon is a moment, midnight is a moment, morning comes from night, evening turns into night, but evening comes from the day and morning turns into day. So meaning is a moment and a transition from absurdity to absurdity, and absurdity only a moment and transition from meaning to meaning." — Jan 05, 2025 09:52AM
"As day requires night and night requires day so meaning requires absurdity and absurdity requires meaning. Noon is a moment, midnight is a moment, morning comes from night, evening turns into night, but evening comes from the day and morning turns into day. So meaning is a moment and a transition from absurdity to absurdity, and absurdity only a moment and transition from meaning to meaning." — Jan 05, 2025 09:52AM
the Fourth of December, feast of St. Barbara, patron saint of artillerymen, gunsmiths, and by not that big of a stretch, dynamiters too.
“Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans”
― Travels with Charley: In Search of America
― Travels with Charley: In Search of America
“مهما كانت الديانة التى بيدها مقاليد الأمور، فسوف تتفتق دائماً وأبداً عن لاتسامح. وسيولد من رحمها محاكم التفتيش وتخرج علينا أعضاء طالبان.”
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“There is a theory going around that the U.S.A. was and still is a gigantic Masonic plot under the ultimate control of the group known as the Illuminati. It is difficult to look for long at the strange single eye crowning the pyramid which is found on every dollar bill and not begin to believe the story, a little.”
― Gravity's Rainbow
― Gravity's Rainbow
“Then again, it’s the whole Reagan program, isn’t it—dismantle the New Deal, reverse the effects of World War II, restore fascism at home and around the world, flee into the past, can’t you feel it, all the dangerous childish stupidity—‘I don’t like the way it came out, I want it to be my way.”
― Vineland
― Vineland
“Now all my teachers are dead except silence. —W.S. Merwin”
― Death: The End of Self-Improvement
― Death: The End of Self-Improvement
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