“ Japanese staff who claim not to know a word of English beyond awesome and sucks, which for a vast range of human endeavour, actually, is more than enough… Thomas Pynchon
“ It was not an act of treason, nor possibly even of defiance. But it was a calculated withdrawal, from the life of the Republic, from its machinery. Whatever else was being denied them out of hate, ind… Thomas Pynchon
“ It is a three-piece affair, everything quilted, long jacket, waistcoat, and trousers, which have Feet at the ends of them, all in striped silk, a double stripe of some acidick Rose upon Celadon for th… Thomas Pynchon
“ Information. What’s wrong with dope and women? Is it any wonder the world’s gone insane, with information come to be the only real medium of exchange? Thomas Pynchon
“ Here’s what you do, suggested Tansy Wagwheel, whom this job in just a few short weeks would drive screaming down Fifteenth Street and on into the embrace of the Denver County public-school system, It’… Thomas Pynchon
“ Each day the mythical return Enzian dreamed of seems less possible. Once it was necessary to know uniforms, insignia, airplane markings, to observe boundaries. But by now too many choices have been ma… Thomas Pynchon
“ Cyprian was captivated by eyes, but only by those that looked away, with either indifference or active distaste. It was not enough for her to return his gaze. She must then direct her own to other mat… Thomas Pynchon
“ Communists then, dopers now, tomorrow, who knew, maybe the faggots, so what, it was all the same beef wasn't it? Anybody looking like a normal American but living a secret life was always good for a p… Thomas Pynchon
“ Colonies are much, much more. Colonies are the outhouses of the European soul, where a fellow can let his pants down and relax, enjoy the smell of his own shit. Where he can fall on his slender prey r… Thomas Pynchon
“ But underneath all this reasonable talk, this scientific speculating, no white Afrikaner could quite put down the way it felt…Something sinister was moving out in the veld: he was beginning to look at… Thomas Pynchon
“ But as with Maxwell's Demon, so now. Either she could not communicate, or he did not exist. Thomas Pynchon
“ Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.... Another mode of meaning behind the obvious, or none. Either Oedipa in the orbiting of a true paranoi… Thomas Pynchon
“ At no point in this did Frank think he was dreaming, probably because he seldom remembered dreams, or paid attention to them even if he did. And though this all had the alert immediacy of daytime Mexi… Thomas Pynchon
“ As they stand in the muck of the Cypress Swamp, black and thinly crusted, each Step breaking through to release a Smell of Generations of Deaths, something in it, some principle of untaught Mechanicks… Thomas Pynchon
“ Ainda precisamos de uma centésima quarta pessoa para o bridge, disse, com uma risadinha árida. O bridge, die Brücke, a ponte, era o apelido dado por ele à experiência em que colaborava com o hospital… Thomas Pynchon
“ A weapon based on Time . . . mused Viktor Mulciber. Well, why not? The one force no one knows how to defeat, resist, or reverse. It kills all forms of life sooner or later. With a Time-weapon you coul… Thomas Pynchon
“ A schlemihl is a schlemihl. What can you make out of one? What can one make out of himself? You reach a point, and Profane knew he had reached it, where you know how much you can and cannot do. But ev… Thomas Pynchon
“ A city uninhabited is different. Different from what a normal observer, straggling in the dark - the occasional dark - would see. It is a universal sin among the false-animate or unimaginative to refu… Thomas Pynchon
“ . . yet there is no avoiding time, the sea of time, the sea of memory and forgetfulness, the years of promise, gone and unrecoverable, of the land almost allowed to claim its better destiny, only to t… Thomas Pynchon
