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  1. John Barth _ Lost in the Funhouse

    One way or another, no matter which theory of our journey is correct, it's myself I address; to whom I rehearse as to a stranger our history and condition, and will disclose my secret hope though I sink for it.
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  2. John Barth _ Lost in the Funhouse

    The wisdom to recognize and halt follows the know-how to pollute past rescue. The treaty's signed, but the cancer ticks in your bones. Until I'd murdered my father and fornicated my mother I wasn't wise enough to see I was Oedipus.
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  3. John Barth _ Lost in the Funhouse

    Love it is that drives and sustains us!' I translate: we don't know what drives and sustains us, only that we are most miserably driven and, imperfectly, sustained. Love is how we call our ignorance of what whips us.
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  4. John Barth _ Lost in the Funhouse

    In sum I'm not what either parent or I had in mind. One hoped I'd be astonishing, forceful, triumphant-heroical in other words. One dead. I myself conventional. I turn out I.
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  5. John Barth _ Lost in the Funhouse

    But I reckon we can manage somehow. The important thing to remember, after all, is that it's meant to be a house; that is, a place of amusement. If people really got lost or injured or too badly frightened in it, the owner'd go out of business. There'd even be lawsuits. No character in a work of fiction can make a speech this long without interruption or acknowledgment from the other characters.
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  6. John Barth _ Lost in the Funhouse

    Let your repentance salt my shoe leather," I said presently, "and then, as I lately sheathed my blade of anger, so sheath you my blade of love.
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  7. John Barth _ Lost in the Funhouse

    people still fall in love, and out, yes, in and out, and out and in, and they please each other, and hurt each other, isn't that the truth, and they do these things in more or less conventionally dramatic fashion, unfashionable or not, go on, I'm going, and what goes on between them is still not only the most interesting but the most important thing in the bloody murderous world"
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  8. John Barth _ Lost in the Funhouse

    …beg Love's pardon for your want of faith. Helen chose you without reason because she loves you without cause; embrace her without question and watch your weather change.
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  9. John Barth _ Lost in the Funhouse

    The nightsea journey may be absurd, but here we swim, will-we nill-we, against the flood, onward and upward, toward a shore that may not exist and couldn't be reached if it did.
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  10. John Barth _ Lost in the Funhouse

    Too late she saw: what she'd favored him with in jest he had received with adoration.
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  11. John Barth _ Lost in the Funhouse

    Unhappily, things get clearer as we go along. I perceive that I have no body. What's less, I've been speaking of myself without delight or alternative as self-consciousness pure and sour; I declare now that even that isn't true. I'm not aware of myself at all, as far as I know. I don't think. . . I know what I'm talking about."
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  12. John Barth _ Lost in the Funhouse

    Others live for the lie of love; Echo lives for her lovely lies, loves for their livening.
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