“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
“The reality is in this head. Mine. I'm the projector at the planetarium, all the closed little universe visible in the circle of that stage is coming out of my mouth, eyes, and sometimes other orifices also.” LittlesSometimesRealityEyeUniverseStageMinesMouthsCirclesVisibleComing OutProjectors Book:The Crying of Lot 49 Source: The Crying of Lot 49
“Some typewriters in Whitehall, in the Pentagon, killed more civilians than our little A4 could have ever hoped to.” LittlesCiviliansTypewritersPentagon Book:Gravity's Rainbow Source: Gravity's Rainbow
“It all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men. Oh, and women too of course, bless their empty little heads.” MenLittlesDesireCoursesIndividualEmptyBless Book:Gravity's Rainbow Source: Gravity's Rainbow
“I came," she said, "hoping you could talk me out of a fantasy." Cherish it!" cried Hilarious, fiercely. "What else do any of you have? Hold it tightly by it's little tentacle, don't let the Freudians coax it away or the pharmacists poison it out of you. Whatever it is, hold it dear, for when you lose it you go over by that much to the others. You begin to cease to be.” LittlesSaidLosesFantasyDearCeasePoisonCherishCriedTentaclesPharmacist Author:Thomas Pynchon
“There is a theory going around that the U.S.A. was and still is a gigantic Masonic plot under the ultimate control of the group known as the Illuminati. It is difficult to look for long at the strange single eye crowning the pyramid which is found on every dollar bill and not begin to believe the story, a little. Too many anarchists in 19th-century Europe—Bakunin, Proudhon, Salverio Friscia—were Masons for it to be pure chance. Lovers of global conspiracy, not all of them Catholic, can count on the Masons for a few good shivers and voids when all else fails.” BelieveLooksLittlesLongStillsStoriesEyeFoundDifficultChanceKnownFailingGroupsCenturyStrangeTheoryLoversPureEuropeUltimateCatholicBillsDollarsPlotVoidConspiracyAnarchistPyramids19th CenturyShiverMasonsMasonicDollar BillsWhen All Else FailsSingle Eye Author:Thomas Pynchon
“She may know a little, may think of herself, face and body, as ‘pretty’…but he could never tell her all the rest, how many other living things, birds, nights smelling of grass and rain, sunlit moments of simple peace, also gather in what she is to him.” ThinkingKnowsLoveMayLittlesMomentsBodyFacesNightSimpleBirdRomanticRainGrassLiving Things Book:Gravity's Rainbow Source: Gravity's Rainbow
