“A number of frail girls... prisoners in the top room of a circular tower, embroidering a kind of tapestry which spilled out the slit windows and into a void, seeking hopelessly to fill the void: for all the other buildings and creatures, all the waves, ships and forests of the earth were contained in this tapestry, and the tapestry was the world.” WorldKindEarthGirlRoomsNumbersBuildingCreaturesWindowWaveSeekingForestsShipsPrisonerVoidTowersFrailTapestrySlitsFill The Void Book:The Crying of Lot 49 Source: The Crying of Lot 49
“If the world offered nothing, nowhere to support or make bearable whatever her private grief was, then it is that world, and not she, that is at fault.” IfsWorldGriefSupportFaultsBearable Author:Thomas Pynchon
“Information. What's wrong with dope and women? Is it any wonder the world's gone insane, with information come to be the only real medium of exchange?” WorldRealWonderGoneInformationInsaneMediumsDope Book:Gravity's Rainbow Source: Gravity's Rainbow
“Laboring through a world every day more stultified, which expected salvation in codes and governments, ever more willing to settle for suburban narratives and diminished payoffs--what were the chances of finding anyone else seeking to transcend that, and not even particularly aware of it?” WorldGovernmentChanceWillingFindingsSalvationSeekingExpectedNarrativeCodeSettlingPayoff Author:Thomas Pynchon
“For a moment she'd wondered if the seal around her sockets were tight enough to allow the tears simply to go on and fill up the entire lens space and never dry. She could carry the sadness of the moment with her that way forever, see the world refracted through those tears, those specific tears, as if indices as yet unfound varied in important ways from cry to cry.” IfsWorldWayImportantEnoughMomentsSpaceForeverSadnessCryTearsGoes OnDryLensesSeals Book:The Crying of Lot 49 Source: The Crying of Lot 49
“You know what a miracle is. Not what Bakunin said. But another world’s intrusion into this one. Most of the time we coexist peacefully, but when we do touch there’s cataclysm.” KnowsWorldSaidMiracleAnother WorldCoexistIntrusion Book:The Crying of Lot 49 Source: The Crying of Lot 49
