“We eat pancakes to escape loneliness, yet within moments we want nothing more than our freedom from ever having so much as thought about pancakes. Nothing can prevent us, after eating pancakes, from feeling the most awful regret. After eating pancakes, our great mission in life becomes the repudiation of the pancakes and everything served along with them, the bacon and the syrup and the sausage and coffee and jellies and jams. But these things are beneath mention, compared with the pancakes themselves. It is the pancake--Pancakes! Pancakes!--that we never learn to respect.”
Quote by Donald Antrim
Work
The Verificationist: A Novel
This novel delves into the complexities of truth and verification, presenting a narrative that challenges readers to question the nature of reality and the validity of information in contemporary society. more
Author
Donald Antrim
Donald Antrim is an American contemporary novelist, born in New York in 1958. His works are known for their unique narrative style and profound psychological insights, with notable titles including 'The Hundred Brothers' and 'Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World'. more
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