Vlad Manko

“He continues to believe, here on his French leave, and at his ease, that the interference is temporary and paper, a matter of messages routed and orders cut, an annoyance that will end when the War ends, so well have They busted the sod prairies of his brain, tilled and sown there, and subsidized him not to grow anything of his own...”
― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow

“He was never unfaithful to Bina. But there is no doubt that what broke the marriage was Landsman’s lack of faith.”
― Michael Chabon, The Yiddish Policemen's Union