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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.

— Thomas Pynchon The Crying of Lot 49 (1966)

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

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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?

Gravity's Rainbow (1973)

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

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