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“We are light…The soul itself is a memory we carry of having once moved at the speed and density of light. The first step…is learning how to re-acquire that rarefaction…to become once more able to pass where we will, through lantern-horn, through window-glass…”
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“When we enter…upon a chain of events we are certain we have lived through before, in every detail, it is possible that we have stepped outside of Time…and have had a glimpse of future, past, and present…all together…They call it 'the already seen.’”
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“…a new Puccini opera," she said. "An American betrays a Japanese woman…He ought to die of shame,but does not…Is it that Japanese do die of shame and dishonor but Americans don't?…As if,somehow,your country is…destined to move forward regardless of who is…underfoot?"
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“This world you take to be 'the' world will die, and descend into Hell…Flanders will be the mass grave of History…you children drift in a dream …imagine the fabric of Time torn open, and yourselves swept through, with no way back, orphans and exiles…”
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“Well you are presentable, there's no avoiding that. When you transmigrate into your next body, you might consider something a bit less eyecatching….I suppose I only mean, be cautious.…”
"Of the flesh but not the world….”
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he was certain…that none of these figures were his real fellow crewmen…rather a ghost-Unit,from some Abode he wished never to visit, resolved on working him mischief…masked to look like Chums of Chance.
But then Darby Suckling caught sight of him,and the moment passed.
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“flight into the next dimension…always at the mercy of Time…We went from two dimensions…out into town- and map-space…and now…years of sky-roving, maybe some of us are ready to step 'sidewise'…into the next dimension-into Time-our fate, our lord, our destroyer."
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crew of the Inconvenience became aware of doubts creeping in…If it was all just some elaborate hoax they'd chosen to play on themselves,to keep distracted from a reality too frightening…They may only have once been readers of the Chums of Chance Series of boys' books…
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“The State is evil, its divine right proceeds from Hell, Hell is where we all went. Some came out...broken, dying...intimidated into silence...all of us, even those who had voted and paid our taxes like good bourgeoisie, came out hating the State.
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“The question that arises is, where were you just before."
Lew squinted, perplexed. "Strolling down to the creek minding my business. Where else?"
"Couldn't have been the same world as the one you're in now."
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“Evolution…what's the next step-human to what? Some compound organism, the American Corporation, for instance, in which even the Supreme Court has recognized legal personhood-a new living species, one that can out-perform most anything an individual can do by himself…”
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“Maybe capitalism decided it didn't need the old magic anymore."…
"Why bother? Had their own magic, doin just fine, thanks, instead of turning lead into gold, they could take poor people's sweat and turn it into greenbacks, and save that lead for enforcement purposes."
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Lew found himself surrounded by a luminosity new to him, not even observed in dreams, nor easily attributable to the smoke-inflected sun beginning to light Chicago. He understood that things were exactly what they were. It seemed more than he could bear.
Today’s episode is an audio journal of my attempt to read Thomas Pynchon’s 1100-page metahistorical explosion of a novel, “Against the Day.” Join me on this intimate journey of struggle, joy and self-discovery.
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A screenshot of an article where people comment on their favorite Pynchon moments: Ishmael Reed Novelist I don’t know why “Against the Day” hasn’t been banned. In one of the most remarkable scenes penned by an American writer, Pynchon cites events that the anti-woke crowd would want deleted. Referring to the Blacks and Filipinos, Mexicans and hillbillies who are present in that scene, the character Lew Basnight “gradually understood that what everybody here had in common was having survived some cataclysm none of them spoke about directly — a bombing, a massacre perhaps at the behest of the U.S. government.” Those with prominent media megaphones today are denying that such cataclysms took place.
Ishmael Reed on his favorite Pynchon moment.
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Our wrap-up episode on Part 1 of Against the Day is out tomorrow! We were joined by author Johan Harstad (The Red Handler, Under the Paving Stones, the Beach!, and more) to discuss our thoughts on and favorite parts of the book so far.
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Wolfe Tone explained then tht, terrible as it might turn out to be 4 th Anarchist cause, Barcelona was only a sideshow. “Governments are about to fuck things up 4 everybody, make life more unlivable than Brother Bakunin ever imagined. Something truly terrible is in th works.” #Pynchon #AgainsttheDay
She held up and jingled at him a silvery ring with a little pair of latchkeys. “…I am chaperoned without mercy. How is a person expected to prove Riemann’s Hypothesis when half her time is taken up getting in and out of rooms? #Pynchon #AgainsttheDay
It became possible to believe one had been spirited, in the swift cascade of light-flashes, to some distant geography where creatures as yet unknown thrashed about, howling affrightedly, in the dark. #Pynchon #AgainsttheDay
