DeLillo's Down Under

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Don DeLillo's been coasting since his great novels of the 1970s, when he
began to encroach on Pynchon's terrain--who had stopped publishing to play
the part of Tom Pinecone to his fellow vagabonds in the Valley--with
wonderful paragraphs of writing such as this one from the sadly neglected
Great Jones Street:

"The presidents and prime ministers are the ones who make the underground
deals speak the true underground idiom. The corporations. The military. The
banks. This is the underground network. This is where it happens. Power
flows under the surface, far beneath the level you and I live on. This is
where the laws are broken, way down under, far beneath the speed freaks and
cutters of smack."

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