Status Updates From Gravity's Rainbow

final stretch!

"But it is a curve each of them feels, unmistakably... They must have guessed, once or twice -- guessed and refused to believe -- that everything, alas, collectively, had been moving toward that purified shape latent in the sky, that shape of no surprise, no second chances, no retrn. Yet they do move forever under it, reserved for its own black-and-white news certainly as if it were the Rainbow and they its chldren."

"You were in London," she will presently whisper, turning back to her wheel and spinning it again, face averted, womanly twisting the night-streaked yard of her past, "while they were coming down. I was in 's Gravenhage"-- fricatives sighing, the name spoken with exile's lingering -- "while they were going up. Between you and me is not only a rocket trajectory, but also a life..."

Funniest chapter since the British candy one holy shit