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Book: V.
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Thomas Pynchon _ V.
He had decided long ago that no Situation had any objective reality: it only existed in the minds of those who happened to be in on it at any specific moment. Since these several minds tended to form a sum total or complex more mongrel than homogeneous, The Situation must necessarily appear to a single observer much like a diagram in four dimensions to an eye conditioned to seeing its world in only three.
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Thomas Pynchon _ V.
the only way clear of the cool/crazy flipflop was obviously slow, frustrating and hard work. Love with your mouth shut, help without breaking your ass or publicizing it: keep cool, but care. He might have known, if he'd used any common sense. It didn't come as a revelation, only something he'd as soon not've admitted.
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Thomas Pynchon _ V.
What sort of an age is this where a man becomes one's enemy only when his back is turned?
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Thomas Pynchon _ V.
Man, I want to die, is all,' cried Ploy.'Don't you know,' said Dahoud, 'that life is the most precious possession you have?''Ho, ho,' said Ploy through his tears. 'Why?''Because,' said Dahoud, 'without it, you'd be dead.
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Thomas Pynchon _ V.
For that moment at least they seemed to give up external plans, theories, and codes, even the inescapable romantic curiosity about one another, to indulge in being simply and purely young, to share that sense of the world's affliction, that outgoing sorrow at the spectacle of Our Human Condition which anyone this age regards as reward or gratuity for having survived adolescence.
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Thomas Pynchon _ V.
A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.
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Thomas Pynchon _ V.
It takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional.
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Thomas Pynchon _ V.
Stencil had called from a Hungarian coffee shop on York Avenue known as Hungarian Coffee Shop
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Thomas Pynchon _ V.
Poetry is not communication with angels or with the "subconscious." It is communication with the guts, genitals, and five portals of sense. Nothing more.
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Thomas Pynchon _ V.
He was visited on a lunar basis by these great unspecific waves of horniness, whereby all women within a certain age group and figure envelope became immediately and impossibly desirable. He emerged from these spells with eyeballs still oscillating and a wish that his neck could rotate through the full 360 degrees.
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Thomas Pynchon _ V.
Ten million dead. Gas. Passchendaele. Let that be now a large figure, now a chemical formula, now an historical account. But dear lord, not the Nameless Horror, the sudden prodigy sprung on a world unaware. We all saw it. There was no innovation, no special breach of nature, or suspension of familiar principles. If it came as any surprise to the public then their own blindness is the Great Tragedy, hardly the war itself.
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Some of us are afraid of dying; others of human loneliness. Profane was afraid of land or seascapes like this, where nothing else lived but himself.
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