Of Shoes and Ships and Sealing Wax and Cabbages and Kings.




Proverbs for Paranoids, 1: You may never get to touch the Master,
but you can tickle his creatures.

Proverbs for Paranoids, 2: The innocence of the creatures is in inverse proportion to the immorality of the Master.

Proverbs for Paranoids, 3: If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.

Proverbs for Paranoids, 4: You hide, they seek.

Paranoids are not paranoids (Proverb 5) because they’re paranoid, but because they keep putting themselves, fucking idiots, deliberately into paranoid situations.



Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow
1:25 pm, by brevetcaptain
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