“One reason Humans remain young so long, compar'd to other Creatures, is that the young are useful in many ways, among them in providing daily, by way of the evil Creatures and Slaughter they love, a Denial of Mortality clamorous enough to allow their Elders release, if only for moments at a time, from Its Claims upon the Attention.” ChildrenAgeYoungDeathFunFamilyEntertainmentElder Book:Mason & Dixon Source: Mason & Dixon
“The anarchist is dressed all in black. In the dark you can only see his eyes. It dates from the 1930's. Porky Pig is a little boy. The children told me that he has a nephew now, Cicero. Do you remember, during the war, when Porky worked in a defense plant? He and Bugs Bunny. That was a good one too.” ChildrenLittlesWarEyeRememberBlackDarkBoysPlantDefenseHis EyesPigsBugsAnarchistLittle Boys1930sBunniesNephew Book:The Crying of Lot 49 Source: The Crying of Lot 49
“It is a curve each of them feels, unmistakably. It is the parabola. They must have guessed, once or twice - guessed and refused to believe - that everything, always, collectively, had been moving toward that purified shape latent in the sky, that shape of no surprise, no second chance, no return. Yet they do move forever under it, reserved for its own black-and-white bad news certainly as if it were the rainbow, and they its children...” IfsFeelsBelieveChildrenMovingBlackChanceWhiteForeverSkyReturnShapesNewsSurpriseBlack And WhiteRainbowCurvesSecond ChanceReservedBad NewsLatentNo Second ChancesParabola Book:Gravity's Rainbow Source: Gravity's Rainbow
“I dream that I have found us both again, With spring so many strangers' lives away, And we, so free, Out walking by the sea, With someone else's paper words to say.... They took us at the gates of green return, Too lost by then to stop, and ask them why- Do children meet again? Does any trace remain, Along the superhighways of July?” ChildrenDoeDreamAsksFoundLostSeaReturnWalkingPaperSpringGreenStrangerGatesJuly Author:Thomas Pynchon
