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invariably tropes for spiritual issues

But when I spoke a moment ago of the depicting of the disposition of fantastic sums of money I did not mean that the sums had necessarily to be large but that large or small the amounts had to be significant. In It Happened One Night Clark Gable is not interested in a $10,000 reward but he insists …

—p.5 Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage Introduction: Words for a Conversation (1) by Stanley Cavell
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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 Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
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going out and invading Poland inspo/funny

Gustav is a composer. For months he has been carrying on a raging debate with Säure over who is better, Beethoven or Rossini. Säure is for Rossini. "I'm not so much for Beethoven qua Beethoven," Gustav argues, "but as he represents the German dialectic, the incorporation of more and more notes into…

—p.447 by Thomas Pynchon
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from silk to bare skin and suspender inspo/imagined-desire

All Margherita's chains and fetters are chiming, black skirt furled back to her waist, stockings pulled up tight in classic cusps by the suspenders of the boned black rig she's wearing underneath. How the penises of Western men have leapt, for a century, to the sight of this singular point at the t…

—p.402 by Thomas Pynchon
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parallelism between analgesia and addiction inspo/funny

"Oneirine, and Methoneirine. Variations reported by Laszlo Jamf in the ACS Journal, year before last. Jamf was on loan again, this time as a chemist, to the Americans, whose National Research Council had begun a massive program to explore the morphine molecule and its possibilities—a Ten-Year Plan,…

—p.353 by Thomas Pynchon