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Posts tagged Thomas Pynchon

Aug 1
“Next worst thing to unrequited Love, isn’t it? Insufficient hate.” Jeremiah Mason (Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon, ch. 77)

“I’ve ascended, descended, even condescended, and the List’s not ended,— but haven’t yet trans-cended a blessed thing, thankee.” Jeremiah Mason (Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon, ch. 76)

Jul 27
“In the Forest, […] ev’ryone comes ‘round in a Circle sooner or later. One day, your foot comes down in your own shit. There, as the Indians say, is the first Step upon the Trail to Wisdom.” Mr. Hugh Crawfford (Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon, ch. 69)

Apr 24
“Time is the Space that may not be seen.” William Emerson (Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon, ch. 32) 

Apr 23
“Cities begin upon the day the Walls of the Shambles go up, to screen away Blood and Blood-letting, Animals’ Cries, Smells and Soil, from Residents already grown fragile before Country Realities. The Better-Off live far as they may, from the concentration of Slaughter. Soon, Country Melancholicks are flocking to Town like Crows, dark’ning the Sun. Dress’d Meats appear in the Market,— Sausages hang against the Sky, forming Lines of Text, cryptick Intestinal Commentary.” Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon (ch. 29)

Mar 7
“… the only reason for anyone to endure church all day Sunday is to be reminded of the Boundaries there to be o’erstepped.” Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon (ch. 8, p. 80)

Mar 5
“Some of us have more Backbone, I suppose….”
“A bodily Part too often undistinguish’d,” Dixon replies, “from a Ram-Rod up the Arse.”
Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon (Ch. 8, p. 78)