Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.
THOMAS PYNCHON
There is no real direction here, neither lines of power nor cooperation. Decisions are never really made – at best they manage to emerge, from a chaos of peeves, whims, hallucinations and all around assholery.
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Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.
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What, I should only trust good people? Man, good people get bought and sold every day. Might as well trust somebody evil once in a while, it makes no more or less sense.
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She thougt of sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west.
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If there is something comforting – religious, if you want – about paranoia, there is still also anti-paranoia, where nothing is connected to anything, a condition not many of us can bear for long.
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The general public has long been divided into two parts; those who think that science can do anything and those who are afraid it will.
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Someday she might replace whatever of her had gone away by some prosthetic device, a dress of a certain color, a phrase in a letter, another lover.
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Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.
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You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
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It takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional.
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Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.
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Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.
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Like so many named places in California it was less an identifiable city than a grouping of concepts–census tracts, special purpose bond-issue districts, shopping nuclei, all overlaid with access roads to its own freeway.
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Shall I project a world?
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Our history is an aggregate of last moments.
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What goes around may come around, but it never ends up exactly the same place, you ever notice? Like a record on a turntable, all it takes is one groove’s difference and the universe can be on into a whole ‘nother song.
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