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“A market need no longer be run by the Invisible Hand, but now could create itself-its own logic, momentum, style, from inside. Putting the control inside was ratifying what de facto had happened-that you had dispensed with God. But you…

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“How strange tonight, this city. As if something trembled below its surface, waiting to burst through.”

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“It was one of those great iron afternoons in London: the yellow sun being teased apart by a thoasand chimneys breathing, fawning upward without shame. This smoke is more than the day’s breath, more than dark strength--it is an imperial presence that lives and moves. People were crossing the streets and squares, going everywhere. Busses were grinding off, hundreds of…

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“Surely for as long as there have been nights as bad as this one---something to raise the possibility of another night that could actually, with love and cockcrows, light the path home, banish the Adversary, destroy the boundaries between our lands our bodies, our stories, all false, about who we are: for the one night, leaving only the clear way…

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“Death glided by, shadowless, among the empties on the grass.”

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“People read what news they wanted to and each accordingly built his own rathouse of history's rags and straws.”

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“Out of that night and day of unconditional wrath, folks would've expected to see any city, if it survived, all newly reborn, purified by flame, taken clear beyond greed, real-estate speculating, local politics--instead of which, here was this weeping widow, some one-woman grievance committee in black, who would go on and save up and lovlingly record and mercilessly begrudge every…

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“As spread thighs are to the libertine...so was the letter V to young Stencil.”

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“Oedipa wondered whether, at the end of this (if it were supposed to end), she too might not be left with only compiled memories…

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If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.

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“remember didn't you sneak away from camp to have a moment alone with What you felt stirring across the land . . . it…

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“Through rain...then through dreaming glass, green with the evening. And herself in chair, old-fashioned, bonneted, looking west over the deck of Earth, inferno red…

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“She knew instinctively: he will be fine as the fraternity boy just out of an Ivy League school who knows he will never stop…

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