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If I had a bingo card of Irving-isms i could have a blackout already.

The recursive intrusive thinking is enough to make the reader paranoid.

Valente is a powerful argument for audiobooks read by the author

A little goes a long way.

“The gears have turned forever, for as long as stars have known about combustion, as long as hydrogen and oxygen have known they were meant to love each other and make baby oceans.”

Too close to finishing to quit now, but I am moving into really hating this book.

"There might be no Virgin Empire, no Virgin Airlines--much less Virgin spacecraft--had Mike Oldfield not attacked a leftover bell with a spare hammer."

"The King Crimson weapon is musical fascism, made by fascists, designed by fascists to dehumanize, to strip mankind of his dignity and soul."
Gordon Haskell, vocalist on KC's In The Court Of Poseidon & Lizard

"How do i language a collision arrived at through separation?"

In the 1st iteration, Sauron was a kitty with a collar of power. That is the power of rewriting for you, right there.

“There is no getting into the future except by waiting.”

"I wish more food writers would write about going to the bathroom, because it's funny and interesting and it's the inevitable result of all this. Also poop should be renamed 'doof' since that is food backwards."

What began as a a little Citroen promotion went a little wild when Moebius got into some strange raw food diet.

“There are innumerable instances of things which attach themselves to something else, then waste and destroy it. The body has lice; a house has mice; a country has robbers; inferior men have riches; superior men have benevolence and righteousness; priests have the Buddhist law.”

“If you must take care that your opinions do not differ in the least from those of the person with whom you are talking, you might just as well be alone.”

Hugo Gernsback invented pulp magazines and the grandfather paradox. Not bad for a charlatan.

"The essential point is that procedureis the last defense of a vanishing majority." McGovern strategist Rick Stearns on how the nomination was secured in Miami.