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bight

Slack has been disappearing inch by inch from the bight of cable

—p.314 by Thomas Pynchon
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none of the buildings will stay up

[...] Last three designs he proposed to the Führer all were visually in the groove, beautifully New German, except that none of the buildings will stay up. They look normal enough, but they are designed to fall down, like fat men at the opera falling asleep into someone's lap, shortly after the las…

—p.304 by Thomas Pynchon
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assuming you had anything to shit inspo/funny

Based out of the Ruhr, where his family had been coal barons for generations, young Stinnes built up a good-sized empire of steel, gas, electric and water power, streetcars and barge lines before he was 30. During the World War he worked closely with Walter Rathenau, who was ramrodding the whole ec…

—p.289 by Thomas Pynchon
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must have seen the movie at least 100 times

"Yeah well," as film critic Mitchell Prettyplace puts it in his definitive 18-volume study of King Kong, "you know, he did love her, folks." Proceeding from this thesis, it appears that Prettyplace has left nothing out, every shot including out-takes raked through for every last bit of symbolism, e…

—p.279 by Thomas Pynchon
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there has been a big run on broccoli

Turns out that some merrymaker has earlier put a hundred grams of hashish in the Hollandaise. Word of this has got around. There has been a big run on broccoli. Roasts lie growing cold on the room-long buffet tables. A third of the company are already asleep, mostly on the floor. It is necessary to…

—p.247 by Thomas Pynchon