And what if many-even if most-of the Slothropian stars are proved, some distant day, to refer to sexual fantasies instead of real events? This would hardly invalidate our approach, any more than it di...
A market need no longer be run by the Invisible Hand, but now could create itself-its own logic, momentum, style, from inside. Putting the control inside was ratifying what de facto had happened-that...
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 of all in...
The Aqyn's Song-------I have come from the edge of the world.I have come from the lungs of the wind,With a thing I have seen so awesomeEven Dzambul could not sing it.With a fear in my heart so sharpIt...
... as long as American life was something to be escaped from, the cartel would always be assured a bottomless pool of new customers.
The hole left by the moon’s tearing-free and monument to her exile;
Remember didn't you sneak away from camp to have a moment alone with What you felt stirring across the land . . . it was the equinox . . . green spring equal nights . . . canyons are opening up, at th...
You don’t understand, getting mad. You guys, you’re like Puritans are about the Bible. So hung up with words, words. You know where that play exists, not in that file cabinet, not in any paperback you...
You could fall in love with me, you can talk to my shrink, you can hide a tape recorder in my bedroom, see what I talk about from wherever I am when I sleep. You want to do that? You can put together...
When you gentlemen come to stand at the Boundary between the Settl'd and the Unpossess'd, just about to enter the Deep Woods, you will recognize the Sensation....
What the road really was, she fancied, was this hypodermic needle, inserted somewhere ahead into the vein of a freeway, a vein nourishing the mainliner L.A., keeping it happy, coherent, protected from...
What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux.
The general public has long been divided into two parts; those who think that science can do anything and those who are afraid it will.
She knew instinctively: he will be fine as the fraternity boy just out of an Ivy League school who knows he will never stop being a fraternity boy as long as he lives. But who still feels he is missin...
She has stepped out into a different night, a different town altogether, one of those first-person-shooter towns that you can drive around in seemingly forever, but never away from. The only humanity...
Remember that Puritans were utterly devoted, like literary critics, to the Word.
Pointsman is the only one here maintaining his calm. He appears unruffled and strong. His lab coats have even begun lately to take on a Savile Row serenity, suppressed waist, flaring vents, finer mate...
Paranoids are not paranoids (Proverb 5) because they’re paranoid, but because they keep putting themselves, fucking idiots, deliberately into paranoid situations.
One thing he had to give her credit for, she'd never called it a Relationship.What is it then, hey, he'd asked once.A secret, with her small child's smile, which like Rodgers and Hammerstein in 3/4 ti...
One summer afternoon Mrs Oedipa Maas came home from a Tupperware party whose hostess had put perhaps too much kirsch in the fondue to find that she, Oedipa, had been named executor, or she supposed ex...
