

“Strange, strange are the dynamics of oil and the ways of oilmen.”
― Gravity’s Rainbow
― Gravity’s Rainbow

“Melancholy Baby dies from an overdose of time”
― Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
― Naked Lunch: The Restored Text

“It's true,' Vanya now, 'look at the forms of capitalist expression. Pornographies: pornographies of love, erotic love, Christian love, boy-and-his-dog, pornographies of sunsets, pornographies of killing, and pornographies of deduction--ahh, that sigh when we guess the murderer--all these novels, these films and songs they lull us with, they're approaches more comfortable and less so, to that Absolute Comfort.' A pause to allow Rudi a quick and sour grin. 'The self-induced orgasm.”
― Gravity’s Rainbow
― Gravity’s Rainbow

“Death is a debt to nature due, Which I have paid, and so must you.”
― Gravity's Rainbow
― Gravity's Rainbow

“When something real is about to happen to you, you go toward it with a transparent surface parallel to your own front that hums and bisects both your ears, making eyes very alert. The light bends toward chalky blue. Your skin aches. At last: something real.”
― Gravity’s Rainbow
― Gravity’s Rainbow
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