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“HARDLY THE MOST hopeful news I could bring you.”
Pynchon, Thomas. Against the Day (pg. 812)
— Jun 21, 2026 06:59PM
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Pynchon, Thomas. Against the Day (pg. 812)
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I am today perhaps more of a Nietzschean, returned to thoughts of the dark future of slavery and danger from which you sought to rescue me. But one’s rescue is surely, at the end of the day, one’s own responsibility.
Pynchon, Thomas. Against the Day (pg. 748)
— Jun 21, 2026 03:29PM
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Pynchon, Thomas. Against the Day (pg. 748)
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THE FIAKER TOOK THEM southward toward the reddened fraction of moon, lights of the city converging behind them, the driver humming to himself appropriate Fiakerlieder but refraining from bursting into full song.
-Pynchon, Thomas. Against the Day (pg. 702)
— Jun 21, 2026 10:31AM
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-Pynchon, Thomas. Against the Day (pg. 702)
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“Until one day one is left with only traces in the world, a few tangles of barbed wire defining the plan-view of something no longer quite able to be seen . . . perhaps certain odors as well, seeping in, late at night, from somewhere upwind, a wind which itself possesses now the same index of refraction as the departed Structure. . . .”
Pynchon, Thomas. Against the Day (pg. 625)
— Jun 20, 2026 05:05PM
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Pynchon, Thomas. Against the Day (pg. 625)
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"Once, among mathematicians, ‘the infinite’ was all but a conjuror’s convenience. The connections lie there, Kit—hidden and poisonous. Those of us who must creep among them do so at our peril.”
“Come on,” Kit said, “let a trivial fellow buy you a beer.”
Pynchon, Thomas. Against the Day (pg. 594)
— Jun 19, 2026 11:28PM
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“Come on,” Kit said, “let a trivial fellow buy you a beer.”
Pynchon, Thomas. Against the Day (pg. 594)
