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"What a beautiful romp this has turned out to. Can't remember ever having smiled so much while reading something I don't completely understand. Tempted to just start over now that I've realized it's not nearly as daunting as I was led to believe." — Mar 21, 2018 01:50PM
"What a beautiful romp this has turned out to. Can't remember ever having smiled so much while reading something I don't completely understand. Tempted to just start over now that I've realized it's not nearly as daunting as I was led to believe." — Mar 21, 2018 01:50PM
“. . . yet there is no avoiding time, the sea of time, the sea of memory and forgetfulness, the years of promise, gone and unrecoverable, of the land almost allowed to claim its better destiny, only to the claim jumped by evildoers known all too well, and taken instead and held hostage to the future we must live in now forever.”
― Inherent Vice
― Inherent Vice
“Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest." William Gaddis, The Recognitions.”
― The Recognitions
― The Recognitions
“You need to find true love, Doc."
Actually, he thought, I'll settle for finding my way through this. His fingers, with a mind of their own, began to creep toward the plastic hedge. Maybe if he searched through it long enough, late enough into the night, he'd find something that might help --- some tiny forgotten scrap of his life he didn't even know was missing, something that would make all the difference now.”
― Inherent Vice
Actually, he thought, I'll settle for finding my way through this. His fingers, with a mind of their own, began to creep toward the plastic hedge. Maybe if he searched through it long enough, late enough into the night, he'd find something that might help --- some tiny forgotten scrap of his life he didn't even know was missing, something that would make all the difference now.”
― Inherent Vice
“In the beginning, sometimes I left messages in the street.”
― Wittgenstein’s Mistress
― Wittgenstein’s Mistress
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