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melisma

She pauses in the uneasy melismas of desert wind.

oooh pretty

—p.403 by Thomas Pynchon
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I have these Jewish reflexes

“You really think Bush’s people are behind this.”

“You don’t?”

“I’m just a fraud examiner. Bush, don’t get me started. The Arab angle, I have these Jewish reflexes, so I have to work to avoid paranoia on that subject also.”

—p.349 by Thomas Pynchon
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a day which is suddenly full of holes

“OK”, soothingly, “like, total disclosure? It’s been happenin to me too? I’m seeing people in the street who are supposed to be dead, even sometimes people I know were in the towers when they went down, who can’t be here but they’re here.”

They gaze at each other for a while, down here on the ba…

—p.339 by Thomas Pynchon
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against all evidence that the world is finite

“It’s not a religion? These are people who believe the Invisible Hand of the Market runs everything. They fight holy wars against competing religions like Marxism. Against all evidence that the world is finite, this blind faith that resources will never run out, profits will go on increasing foreve…

—p.338 by Thomas Pynchon
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copacetic

“Copacetic, far ’s I know, why?”

it doesnt feel right but i guessed it correctly this time

—p.336 by Thomas Pynchon
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