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Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.

— Thomas Pynchon The Crying of Lot 49 (1966)

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It is usually not wise to discuss matters of costume with people like this, — politics or religion being far safer topicks.

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All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.

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What are the stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing?

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If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers.

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