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I’m still fuckin doin it

-At Love Canal,the Hooker Chemical Corporation was found guilty of monstrous violations of the law,I heard him say…
-For years…those people were found guilty of the most flagrant abuses of public health,I heard him say…
-Of dumping chemicals…no regard for public health…I heard him say…
-In immense quantities…thousands of leaking barrels,I heard him say…
-For that was their business,I heard him say…

…when they have guns...loaded and ready, when they have guns, stuck in their mouths...what, then, are the guns pointing towards?...what is their orientation?..toward what center, what figure, what concentration?..this is important to know... this is essential to know: what the guns shoved in their mouths are pointing towards...

In Washington today, an announcement came from the Centers for Disease Control
….advertising, when consumed at levels of over eighty-thousand suggestion-units per day...a quantity that falls well within exposure rates common to most industrialized nations...has been found to be highly carcinogenic...

-I wonder..if we haven't got it wrong, Jurgen said...I wonder if maybe these guys' natural condition isn't to be lit up-if their ground state isn't actually when they're glowing...Or maybe... they really are glowing constantly...but, through some malign unknown mechanism, their everlasting light is periodically swallowed up by un-understood atmospheric forces... Rudely occluded...

So this is clearly a tapestry of lives and voices. I can’t figure out if it’s interconnected except by weirdness. Some laugh out loud moments

What the hell is going on in this book

Just having a great time with this one. Wow.

Just hit a boring section and then the text fractures back to the previous part and the speaker is both the last fragment and the current, and he’s interrupted by the police office taking a statement who basically says “come on now, get on with it” but has the energy of

Me: Is the natural state of the soul quiet or chaos?

Taco Bell cashier: Look buddy, it’s transient, shifting like water