Acts have consequences, Dixon, they must. These Louts believe all's right now,- that they are free to get on with Lives that to them are no doubt important,- with no Glimmer at all of the Debt they have taken on. That is what I smell'd,- Lethe-Water. One of the things the newly-born forget, is how terrible its Taste, and Smell. In Time, these People are able to forget ev'rything. Be willing but to wait a little, and ye may gull them again and again, however ye wish,- even unto their own Dissolution. In America, as I apprehend, Time is the true River that runs 'round Hell.
( Thomas Pynchon )
[ Mason & Dixon ]
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