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Inherent Vice
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"I am ripping through this book, but loving it." Sep 08, 2025 05:44PM

 
The Red Book: A R...
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"As day requires night and night requires day so meaning requires absurdity and absurdity requires meaning. Noon is a moment, midnight is a moment, morning comes from night, evening turns into night, but evening comes from the day and morning turns into day. So meaning is a moment and a transition from absurdity to absurdity, and absurdity only a moment and transition from meaning to meaning." Jan 05, 2025 09:52AM

 
The Exegesis of P...
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"Chipped away some more of this today. Very thought provoking. Was Dick in contact with some divine entity? Or was it caused by his stroke? Or maybe all the drugs he took? Either way, the book is like having coffee with a modern day philosopher." Jul 18, 2013 01:57PM

 
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the Fourth of December, feast of St. Barbara, patron saint of artillerymen, gunsmiths, and by not that big of a stretch, dynamiters too.
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Thomas Pynchon
“Nature does not know extinction; all it knows is transformation. Everything science has taught me, and continues to teach me, strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death. —WERNHER VON BRAUN”
Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow

Salman Rushdie
“مهما كانت الديانة التى بيدها مقاليد الأمور، فسوف تتفتق دائماً وأبداً عن لاتسامح. وسيولد من رحمها محاكم التفتيش وتخرج علينا أعضاء طالبان.”
Salman Rushdie

Thomas Pynchon
“There is a theory going around that the U.S.A. was and still is a gigantic Masonic plot under the ultimate control of the group known as the Illuminati. It is difficult to look for long at the strange single eye crowning the pyramid which is found on every dollar bill and not begin to believe the story, a little.”
Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow

“Now all my teachers are dead except silence. —W.S. Merwin”
Joan Tollifson, Death: The End of Self-Improvement

John Steinbeck
“Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans”
John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

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