He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.
For that moment at least they seemed to give up external plans, theories, and codes, even the inescapable romantic curiosity about one another, to indulge in being simply and purely young, to share th...
Five years Gebrail had hated them. Hated the stone buildings and metaled roads, the iron bridges and glass windows of Shepheard’s Hotel which it seemed were only different forms of the dead sand that...
Don't commit original sin. Try and let her just be.
But Lord Blatherard Osmo was able at last to devote all of his time to Novi Pazar. Early in 1939, he was discovered mysteriously suffocated in a bathtub full of tapioca pudding, at the home of a Certa...
If you think you see no slaves in pennsylvania, replies capt. zhang, his face as smooth as suet, why, look again. they are not all african, nor do some of them even yet know,--may never know,--that th...
What’ll happen is, Alex McClean advises, is you’ll get hammer’d paying double taxes, visits all the time from Sheriffs of both provinces looking for their quitrents, tax collectors from Philadelphia a...
Too many of us have to sit foolishly by while something comes out of the dark, strikes, returns to wherever it came from, as if we are too fragile for a world of happy families, whose untroubled desti...
To rule forever, continues the Chinaman, later, it is necessary only to create, among the people one would rule, what we call...Bad History. Nothing will produce Bad History more directly nor brutally...
This spiritualist, this statistician, what are you anyway?
Something, something like the silvering of a mirror, remained between them. If Dally wanted to throw herself into those arms in their carefully kept sleeves, she would not be pushed away, she was at l...
So generation after generation of men in love with pain and passivity serve out their time in the Zone, silent, redolent of faded sperm, terrified of dying, desperately addicted to the comforts others...
She had heard all about excluded middles ; they were bad shit, to be avoided...
Planted rows went turning past like giant spokes one by one as they ranged the roads. The skies were interrupted by dark gray storm clouds with a flow like molten stone, swept and liquid, and light th...
Out in the Field, Down by the Sea, The Hour has peal’d, Whoever ye be, Daughter of Erin, Scotia’s Son, Let us be daring,— Let it be done. It is time for The Choosing,— Americans all, No more refus...
One morning Profane woke up early, couldn't get back to sleep and decided on a whim to spend the day like a yo-yo, shuttling on the subway back and forth underneath 42nd Street, from Times Square to G...
Not the first time Doc had run into girl-of-his-dreams unavailability.
Never mind. Just be advised, boys, she said, you’ll want to watch your step, ’cause what I am is, is like a small-diameter pearl of the Orient rolling around on the floor of late capitalism—lowlifes o...
Mason prefers to switch over to Tea, when it is Dixon’s turn to begin shaking his head. Can’t understand how anyone abides that stuff. How so? Mason unable not to react. Well, it’s disgusting, isn’t i...
Mason bleakly exhales. No Hell, then? Not inside the Earth, anyway. Nor any . . . Single Administrator of Evil. They did introduce me to some Functionary,— no telling,— We chatted, others came in. The...