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To only connect?

Well. What happens when paranoid meets paranoid? A crossing of solipsisms. Clearly. The two patterns create a third: a moiré, a new world of flowing shadows, interferences. . . .

Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow

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The West’s dumping ground

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.

— Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow

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Quotes: Eau de Berkeley

“Summertime Berkeley giving off her old-lady smell, nine different styles of jasmine and a squirt of he-cat.”

— Michael Chabon in “Telegraph Avenue