Paranoiac Quotes

[doktor at primenet.com]

Jester--

Some paranoiac quotes for you:

"[P]aranoia . . . is nothing less than the onset, the leading edge, of the
discovery that _everything is connected_, everything in the Creation, a
secondary illumination--not yet blindingly One, but at least connected, and
perhaps a route In for those like Tchitcherine who are held at the edge."
        --GR, 703

"On, the hand of a terrible croupier is that touch on the sleeves of his
dreams: all in his life of what has looked free or random, is discovered
to've been under some Control, all the time, the same as a fixed roulette
wheel . . . ."
        --GR, 209

"It might almost--if one were paranoid enough--seem to be a collaboration
here, between both sides of the Wall, matter and spirit.  What _is_ it they
know that the powerless do not?  What terrible structure behind the
appearances of diversity and enterprise?"
        --GR, 165

"If there is something comforting--religious, if you want--about paranoia,
there is still also anti-paranoia, where nothing is connected to anything,
a condition not many of us can bear for long.  Well right now, Slothrop
feels himself sliding onto the anti-paranoid part of his cycle, feels the
whole city around him going back roofless, vulnerable, uncentered as he is
. . . .  Either They have put him here for a reason, or he's just here.  He
isn't sure that he wouldn't, actually, rather have that _reason_ . . . ."
        --GR, 434

"These are no longer quite outward and visible signs of a game of chance.
There is another enterprise here, more real than that, less merciful, and
systematically hidden from the likes of Slothrop.  Who sits in the taller
chairs?  Do They have names?  For a minute here, Slothrop . . . is alone
with the paraphernalia of an order whose presence among the ordinary debris
of waking he has only lately begun to suspect."
        --GR, 202

See also Scott Sanders' essay, "Pynchon's Paranoid History," _Mindful
Pleasures_, pp. 139 et seq., for a good overview.  Hope these are useful.

--Jimmy

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