What’s this? What are the antagonists doing here – infiltrating their own audience? Well, they’re not really. It’s … - Thomas Pynchon

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I'm determined not to lose my name. It's who I am. It has neither aided my progress nor hampered it. It's just who I am.

Thomas Pynchon

What’s this? What are the antagonists doing here – infiltrating their own audience? Well, they’re not really. It’s somebody else’s audience at the moment, and these nightly spectacles are an appreciable part of the darkside hours of life of the rocket capital. The chances for any paradox here, really, are less than you think.

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If America was a person, and it sat down, Lancaster town would be plunged into a Darkness unbreathable.

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Right and left; the hothouse and the street. The Right can only live and work hermetically, in the hothouse of the past, while outside the Left prosecute their affairs in the streets manipulated by mob violence. And cannot live but in the dreamscape of the future.

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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.

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