#RatnersStar
#DonDeLillo
They'd had to confront the terror of the irrational, this everlasting slit in the divinity of whole numbers. Subdivide the continuous motion of a point. No common measure this side of madness…Nothing corresponds. Something eludes. Screech and claw of the inexpressible.
Finished #Libra
#DonDeLillo
‘Here is a man who wants to spy on our operations…wants to use us but we will end up using him…believes in his heart that he's a dedicated leftist. But he is also a Libran…a Marine recruit who reads Karl Marx…sitting on the scales, ready to be tilted either way.’
#Libra
#DonDeLillo
Create coincidence so bizarre they have to believe it…Desperate men give their solitude a purpose…If the world is where we hide from ourselves, what do we do when the world is no longer accessible? We invent a false name, invent a destiny, purchase a firearm through the mail.
i've come to think of europe as a hardcover book, america as the paperback version. #DonDeLillo #booksky #books
#Players
#DonDeLillo
“I wouldn't want to say porta rickens…coloreds…the well-meaning white folks who have taken up the struggle against the struggle,not knowing…that the capitalist system…power structure…pattern of repression are themselves a struggle. It's not an easy matter,being the oppressor…
#Libra
#DonDeLillo
Knowledge was a danger…the Director of Central Intelligence, was not to know important things. The less he knew, the more decisively he could function. It would impair his ability to tell the truth at an inquiry or a hearing, or in an Oval Office chat with the President…
Finished #PafkoattheWall
#DonDeLillo
He speaks in your voice, American, and there's a shine in his eye that's halfway hopeful.
#PafkoattheWall
#DonDeLillo
Everything else recedes around him, the game…and crowd,while he studies his fingers…He looks at the system of ridges on his fingertips, these are criminal prints…it makes him wonder how many others made it over the turnstiles and what will happen to those who got caught…
Toxic Airborne Event. #DonDelillo
Finished #Players
#DonDeLillo
“Our big problem…was that we didn’t give our government credit for being the totally entangling force that it was. They were even more evil than we’d imagined…Assassination, blackmail, torture…We thought they bombed villages,killed children,for the sake of technology…
#Players
#DonDeLillo
To be alone with her was to occupy the immediate center of things. There were no gradations to this kind of desire...He took the glass out of her hand...ending one sequence of encounter to begin another. The second he touched her, touch turned to grip.
#Players
#DonDeLillo
“The future has collapsed right in on us…what does it look like?…It looks like waves and waves of static. It's being beamed in ahead of schedule…It looks like seedy people from Mercer Street…As soon as they see a camera they take off their clothes. It used to be people waved."
è opinione comune individuare nell’assassinio del presidente John Kennedy a Dallas, il 22 novembre 1963, la data d’inizio del postmoderno americano, in cui gli USA perdono la propria innocenza. Don DeLillo ne parla nel suo romanzo "Libra" (1988)
#dondelillo #postmodern #libra
Finished #Underworld
#DonDeLillo
I tell Viktor there is a curious connection between weapons and waste. I don't know exactly what. He smiles…He says maybe one is the mystical twin of the other…He says waste is the devil twin. Because waste is the secret history, the underhistory….
#Underworld
#DonDeLillo
"Once they imagine the bomb,write down equations,they see it's possible to build,they build,they test in the American desert,they drop on the Japanese,but once they imagine in the beginning,it makes everything true," he says.
"Nothing you can believe is not coming true."
#FallingMan
#DonDeLillo
Gedankenübertragung…the broadcasting of thoughts…of American irrelevance…the day is coming when nobody has to think about America except for the danger it brings. It is losing the center. It becomes the center of its own shit.
#HeartofDarkness
#JosephConrad
#TheNames
#DonDeLillo
“…the Americans choose strategy over principle every time and yet keep believing in their own innocence…Does your boss tell you that power must be blind in both eyes? You don't see us…the final humiliation. The occupiers fail to see the people they control."
#JosephConrad
#Underworld
#DonDeLillo
Then she said, "Duck and cover! Duck and cover…”
…He liked to duck and cover.There was a sense of acting in unison that he found satisfying…felt the comfort of numbers…a community of lookalikes and do-alikes…In their prayer posture they could have been anyone from anywhere.
Underworld, The Names, and White Noise still rank among my fave novels (and I have first editions of two of them, one signed😃📚).
#HappyBirthdayDonDeLillo #DonDeLillo
Were people this dumb before television?
- Don DeLillo, White noise
born on this day, 1936
#BookSky
#DonDeLillo
“Sometimes I see something so moving I know I’m not supposed to linger. See it and leave. If you stay too long, you wear out the wordless shock. Love it and trust it and leave.” (Underworld)
✒️The great #DonDeLillo, American author, is 89 today. #Literature
#Underworld
#DonDeLillo
“Cost per thou, Dwayne, is an overrated device intended to blind us to the truth of our situation." He waited for Dwayne to ask what the truth of our situation was
"There is only one truth. Whoever controls your eyeballs runs the world."
#Underworld
#DonDeLillo
ANFO…an acronym for ammonium nitrate and fuel oil…talking about waste…talking about fertilizer…about waste and weapons, we are talking about ANFO, the bomb that begins in the asshole of a barnyard pig…Common Sense, Uncommon Chemistry…Dow's catchy ad slogan….
#Underworld
#DonDeLillo
She began to understand that this was Vietnam Week on campuses…a protest against Dow Chemical…whose products included a new and improved form of napalm with a polystyrene additive that made jellied matter cling more firmly to human flesh.
#Underworld
#DonDeLillo
ANFO…an acronym for ammonium nitrate and fuel oil…talking about waste…talking about fertilizer…about waste and weapons, we are talking about ANFO, the bomb that begins in the asshole of a barnyard pig…Common Sense, Uncommon Chemis-try…Dow's catchy ad slogan….
#Underworld
#DonDeLillo
And the audience sat there thinking, How real can the crisis be if we're sitting in a club on Santa Monica Boulevard going ha ha ha.
"We're all gonna die!"
Lenny loves the postexistential bent of this line.
#Underworld
#DonDeLillo
BETTER THINGS
FOR BETTER LIVING THROUGH CHEMISTRY
#Underworld
#DonDeLillo
And the two men…Could just as easily be Oppenheimer and Teller, their bodies greased with suntan oil as they quote Hindu scriptures to each other.
Om does not rhyme with bomb. It only
looks that way.
Death and magic, that's the mushroom. Or death and immortal life.
