If the world offered nothing, nowhere to support or make bearable whatever her private grief was, then it is that world, and not she, that is at fault. Thomas Pynchon More Quotes by Thomas Pynchon More Quotes From Thomas Pynchon In the eighteenth century it was often convenient to regard man as a clockwork automaton. In the nineteenth century, with Newtonian physics pretty well assimilated and a lot of work in thermodynamics going on, man was looked on as a heat engine, about 40 per cent efficient. Now in the twentieth century, with nuclear and subatomic physics a going thing, man had become something which absorbs X-rays, gamma rays and neutrons. Thomas Pynchon neutrons nuclear men The anarchist is dressed all in black. In the dark you can only see his eyes. It dates from the 1930's. Porky Pig is a little boy. The children told me that he has a nephew now, Cicero. Do you remember, during the war, when Porky worked in a defense plant? He and Bugs Bunny. That was a good one too. Thomas Pynchon eye war children Ills are many, blessings few, Thomas Pynchon tonight blessing dream So generation after generation of men in love with pain and passivity serve out their time in the Zone, silent, redolent of faded sperm, terrified of dying, desperately addicted to the comforts others sell them, however useless, ugly or shallow, willing to have life defined for them by men whose only talent is for death. Thomas Pynchon pain dying men I mean what they and their hired psychiatrists call delusional systems. Needless to say, ‘delusions’ are always officially defined. We do not have to worry about questions of real or unreal. They only talk out of expediency. It’s the system that matters. How the data arrange themselves inside it. Some are consistent, others fall apart. Thomas Pynchon real mean fall If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers. Thomas Pynchon She would give them order. She would create constellations. Thomas Pynchon she give create order A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now. Thomas Pynchon nothing now compare sky We have recently moved into an era when... everybody can share an inconceivably enormous amount of information just by stroking a few keys on a terminal. Thomas Pynchon just everybody information share Idealism is no good. Any concrete dedication to an abstract condition results in unpleasant things like wars. Thomas Pynchon things good dedication results I have this guitar on which I occasionally kill time making up rock n' roll lyrics. Thomas Pynchon lyrics rock guitar time
