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There is no real direction here, neither lines of power nor cooperation. Decisions are never really made – at best they manage to emerge, from a chaos of peeves, whims, hallucinations and all around assholery.

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Thomas Pynchon
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 8
Essayist
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Glen Cove
New York
Thomas Ruggles Pynchon
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