Bookmarker is a personal project by @dellsystem to help with retaining reading material. Source on GitHub.

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velleity

out of the moment's velleity, lay it right out for the young fool

—p.715 by Thomas Pynchon
uncertain
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the sunlit faces of clouds

Thanatz was really asking: when mortal faces go by, sure, self-consistent and never seeing me, are they real? Are they souls, really? or only attractive sculpture, the sunlit faces of clouds?

And: "How can I love them?"

—p.685 by Thomas Pynchon
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you will want cause and effect inspo/funny

You will want cause and effect. All right. Thanatz was washed overboard in the same storm that took Slothrop from the Anubis. He was rescued by a Polish undertaker in a rowboat, out in the storm tonight to see if he can get struck by lightning. The undertaker is wearing, in hopes it will draw elect…

—p.676 by Thomas Pynchon
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abreaction

In their innocence, the Baby Bulbs don't know what to make of this roach's abreaction

—p.661 by Thomas Pynchon
strange
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the condition she needed for being with Roger

The sad fact, lacerating his heart, laying open his emptiness, is that Jessica believes Them. "The War" was the condition she needed for being with Roger. "Peace" allows her to leave him. His resources, next to Theirs, are too meager. He has no words, no technically splendid embrace, no screaming f…

—p.640 by Thomas Pynchon