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6 years, 3 months ago

to call somebody’s mother a neoliberal

Considering Leopoldo’s history this does seem like a good moment to bring up the topic of Windust. “Does your shrink ever talk about the economy down there?”

“Not much, it’s a painful subject. Worst insult he can think of is to call somebody’s mother a neoliberal. Those policies destroyed the Ar…

—p.245 Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon
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a father-to-son transmission model

Fuck here we go, Maxine half-subvocalizes, having only herself recently learned of Conkling’s longtime obsession with, not so much Hitler in general as the even more focused question of, what did Hitler smell like? Exactly? “I mean obviously like a vegetarian, like a nonsmoker, but . . . what was H…

—p.234 by Thomas Pynchon
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pallid

Their skins in the spill from this fluorescent indigo lighting register the same pallid hue, as if permanently stained from too much cathode radiation.

—p.221 by Thomas Pynchon
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indoles

what forensic Noses like to call the deathmask, the way the indoles of bodily decay assume precedence over all other notes that might be present

huh

—p.207 by Thomas Pynchon
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well after any statute of limitations has run

[...] a buffer space constantly under the threat of inundation from above if the pool—concrete, state of the art back then, grandfathered exempt from what today would be a number of code violations—should God forbid ever spring a leak. For now it’s the outward and structural form of a secret histor…

—p.205 by Thomas Pynchon