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Murphy's Law, that brash proletarian restatement of Godel's Theorem.
Thomas Pynchon
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Thomas Pynchon
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 8
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Science Fiction Writer
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Glen Cove
New York
Thomas Ruggles Pynchon
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Thomas Ruggles Pynchon
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Like so many named places in California it was less an identifiable city than a grouping of concepts--census tracts, special purpose bond-issue districts, shopping nuclei, all overlaid with access roads to its own freeway.
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Not me, paranoia's the garlic in life's kitchen, right, you can never have too much.
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But as with Maxwell's Demon, so now. Either she could not communicate, or he did not exist.
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Some of us are afraid of dying others of human loneliness. Profane was afraid of land or seascapes like this, where nothing else lived but himself.
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Darkness invades the dreams of the glassblower. Of all the unpleasantries his dreams grab in out of the night air, an extinguished light is the worst. Light in his dreams, was always hope: the basic, moral hope. As the contacts break helically away, hope turns to darkness, and the glassblower wakes sharply tonight crying, Who? Who?
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If there is something comforting - religious, if you want - about paranoia, there is still also anti-paranoia, where nothing is connected to anything, a condition not many of us can bear for long.
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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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All the animals, the plants, the minerals, even other kinds of men, are being broken and reassembled every day, to preserve an elite few, who are the loudest to theorize on freedom, but the least free of all.
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Everybody gets told to write about what they know. The trouble with many of us is that at the earlier stages of life we think we know everything- or to put it more usefully, we are often unaware of the scope and structure of our ignorance.
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What North Europe thinks of as its history is actually quite provincial and of limited interest. Different sorts of Christian killing each other, and that's about it.
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Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.
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Real flight and dreams of flight go together. Both are part of the same movement. Not A before B, but all together.
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If America was a person, and it sat down, Lancaster town would be plunged into a Darkness unbreathable.
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The reality is in this head. Mine. I'm the projector at the planetarium, all the closed little universe visible in the circle of that stage is coming out of my mouth, eyes, and sometimes other orifices also.
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The hand of Providence creeps among the stars, giving Slothrop the finger.
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Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.
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[Oedipa Maas] awoke at last to find herself getting laid.
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