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Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.
The Crying of Lot 49 (1966)
Death glided by, shadowless, among the empties on the grass.
The Crying of Lot 49 (1966)
This is America, you live in it, you let it happen. Let it unfurl.
The Crying of Lot 49 (1966)
The illustrations were woodcuts, executed with that crude haste to see the finished product that marks the amateur. True pornography is given us by vastly patient professionals.
The Crying of Lot 49 (1966)
Write by WASTE. ... The government will open it if you use the other. The dolphins will be mad. Love the dolphins.
The Crying of Lot 49 (1966)
"I was dreaming … about my grandfather. A very old man, at least as old as I am now, 91. I thought, when I was a boy, that he had been 91 all his life. Now I feel as if I have been 91 all my life."
The Crying of Lot 49 (1966)
"You one of those right wing nut outfits?" inquired the diplomatic Metzger.
Fallopian twinkled. "They accuse us of being paranoids."
"They?" inquired Metzger, twinkling also.
"Us?" asked Oedipa.
The Crying of Lot 49 (1966)
You know what a miracle is. Not what Bakunin said. But another world’s intrusion into this one. Most of the time we coexist peacefully, but when we do touch there’s cataclysm.
The Crying of Lot 49 (1966)
“Everybody who says the same words is the same person if the spectra are the same only they happen differently in time, you dig? But the time is arbitrary. You pick your zero point anywhere you want, that way you can shuffle each person’s time line sideways till they all coincide.
The Crying of Lot 49 (1966)
"Whenever I put the headsets on now," he'd continued, "I really do understand what I find there. When those kids sing about 'She loves you,' yeah, well, you know, she does, she's any number of people, all over the world, back through time, different colors, shapes, sizes, distances from death, but she loves. And the 'you' is everybody. And herself."
The Crying of Lot 49 (1966)