Paranoiac Quotes

[Meg Larson]

A-and what about the Proverbs for Paranoids?  The only two I can remember
off-hand are nos. 4 and 5:

4.  "_You_ hide, they seek" (262).
5.  "Paranoids are not paranoid because they're paranoid, but becasue they
keep putting themselves, fucking idiots, deliberately into paranoid
situations" (292).

"Too many textbooks and discussions leave students free to make up their
minds about things"
                                  --- Mel Gabler, Texas textbook critic 

Meg Larson
Saginaw Valley State University
mgl at tardis.svsu.edu              

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> From: doktor at primenet.com
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: Paranoiac Quotes
> Date: Tuesday, March 04, 1997 8:14 AM
> 
> 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
> 
> http://www.angelfire.com/oh/Insouciance/
> 
> or
> 
> http://www.angelfire.com/oh/Insouciance/index.html
> 
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