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He scanned the books that lined the shelves […] Concise Conversations and Conclusions Concerning Conceptual Cons by Forrester D. Ballona

“Oh honey, it’s all been so REVITALIZED around here thanks to Radio-Cheez!”

"On the bus!"

I didn't finish reading this, having been halted in March 2020 with the little episode of a global pandemic, but this seemed to me to be a top-notch over the top book of the highest order.

Uber strong brujo energy, unsurprisingly, from Pynchon, reading this last chunk about 11 September 2001 twenty four years later on 11 September 2025...in addition to a day after Charlie Kirk's assassination...but then again, this just points to a time-warpy-simulation/big conspiracy/carousel game of cosmic pool, now doesn't it....

"Do either of you have any theories as to the shooter's identity?"

"In the toi-let!"

"Mind letting me watch DVD? Simple nostalgia, you understand."

"Dahlin, I only deliver em."
[Ben & Jerry's Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookie Dough / Scream, Blacula Scream

"The battleships sunk had been practically obsolete. The Twin Towers were a necessary expenditure. In both cases, what the nation really needed was a war to cull the impending generations of young men reaching adulthood. Such a war would cut down the labor pool to ensure a sizable wage to the survivors. It would throw the surplus men of many countries into combat and stimulate economies the world over."

"Life hadn't slowed any, he reckoned. Except now they measured their passing days in peacock tongues."

“They studied the twilight of such professions so that they might describe them to their children, someday.”

“I can’t stop thinking about that night. And the look on her eyes.”

"The family unit amounts to fiefdom. The Civil Rights Movement has completely neglected the autonomy of children."

And in the sky in this world, there were two moons, side by side.

The train was crowded, but no one dared sit down beside him.

"She might be very close by."

"Cognitive disorders move ahead, never back. Or so I've been told. They're like gears that can only move in one direction."

“‘The Little People,’ said the girl.”

“It can be argued that exploitation films address the politics and psychology of exploitation more coherently than ‘legit’ films, just because by their very crassness they often bring these issues more clearly out into the open.”

“Women are forced to think strategically about where and when to travel.”

“I don’t talk about the goat.”

That’s quite a dream, Danny

"When I ask was it a gang fight or an AIDS needle or a drive-by, he calls me provincial and bigoted and shakes his head sadly. "