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.
THOMAS PYNCHONIf 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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Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.
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Information. What’s wrong with dope and women? Is it any wonder the world’s gone insane, with information come to be the only real medium of exchange?
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You go from dream to dream inside me. You have passage to my last shabby corner, and there, among the debris, you’ve found life. I’m no longer sure which of all the words, images, dreams or ghosts are ‘yours’ and which are ‘mine.’ It’s past sorting out.
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A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.
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What are the stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing?
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Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.
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If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.
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They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.
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Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.
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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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Why should things be easy to understand?
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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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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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Shall I project a world?
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Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.
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