A number of frail girls. . . prisoners in the top room of a circular tower, embroidering a … - Thomas Pynchon

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I hate a man who swallows [his food], affecting not to know what he is eating. I suspect his taste in higher matters.

Thomas Pynchon

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.

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