Official Pynchon List Quote Of The Year 2000

[Paul Mackin]

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> "We live in an age, or in a society, in which simple rational ideas can be
> simply expressed. No one needs to talk in allegories
> and metaphors."
>

Heh, heh. All the more remarkable in a world devoid of honest (authentic)
waiters, punch boys, railway conductors, child molesters, montebanks, second
story men, barmaids, pimps, sub debs, and even of tourists. In short, in a
V-world, as opposed to a B-world. B for you know what . . . .

                            P.