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“A few years ago—you must have been a child at the time, so you may not remember it—many young people of this country had the same impression. They made an ingenuous and disorganized effort to escape from captivity but ultimately failed, because they were unable to find the bars of the cage. If you can’t discover what’s keeping you in, the will to get out soon becomes confused and ineffectual.”
― Ishmael
― Ishmael
“So tonight to shush you how about if I say I have administrative bones to pick with God, Boo. I’ll say God seems to have a kind of laid-back management style I’m not crazy about. I’m pretty much anti-death. God looks by all accounts to be pro-death. I’m not seeing how we can get together on this issue, he and I, Boo.”
― Infinite Jest
― Infinite Jest
“unpleasant-fact specialist”
― Infinite Jest
― Infinite Jest
“I was wrong,” I told him. “What more do you want?” “Astonishment,” he said. I nodded. “I’m astonished, all right. I just don’t let it show.” “I should have gotten you when you were seventeen.” I shrugged, meaning that I wished he had.”
― Ishmael
― Ishmael
“Look,” I said after a bit. “The things you’re showing me, the things you’re doing, are…almost beyond belief. I know that. But it’s just not in me to leap up out of my chair while striking my brow and crying, ‘My God, this is incredible!’ ” He wrinkled his forehead thoughtfully for a moment before saying: “What’s wrong with you then?” He seemed so genuinely concerned that I had to smile. “All frozen inside,” I told him. “An iceberg.” He shook his head, sorry for me.”
― Ishmael
― Ishmael
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