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Manichaeism

because it works by implementing Manichaeistic strategy

—p.149 by Percival Everett
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Trigo had six legs and looked rather frightening

Dream. Trigo had six legs and looked rather frightening. He moved around our kitchen at home like an insect, enjoying himself, looking at one paw and then another, but ignoring his left front.

“Where did you get all those?” I asked.

“The leg store,” he said. “They were having a special.”

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—p.113 by Percival Everett
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DaMarcus’s sugar cookies misc/mistakes

“DaMarcus’s sugar cookies are especially good,” Sill told me. “And much enjoyed by the crew.”

“Thank you, sir,” DeMarcus said. “Will that be all?”

—p.74 by Percival Everett
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a real-world example of Zorn’s lemma

I wandered back through campus toward home, contemplating very briefly Zorn’s lemma, stopping because it was not only boring, depending as it did on the trivial ring having the multiplicative unit one, but also incomprehensible. I didn’t understand a word of it, a symbol of it, a function of it, es…

—p.38 by Percival Everett
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I hate him so much

“That’s my BMW right there.” She pointed toward a small, dark blue convertible parked beside bright green Audrey. “It’s got an automatic transmission. It’s much easier to drive and it’s only ten years old as opposed to that forty-year-old piece of Italian bullshit. It has low miles. I drive it to m…

—p.23 by Percival Everett