Rushdie & Pynchonian Paranoia

[Otto]

Salman Rushdie in The Guardian:
The paranoid knows better. If the crimes of the past are only now being
uncovered, the paranoid will retort, how long will it take before we know
about the crimes of the present? Are the "innocent" merely the guilty whose
guilt hasn't yet been established? Pynchonian analysis leaves true paranoids
with few choices: to become obsessed investigators of the world's secret
meanings; to accept their impotence and fall into one of a familiar
selection of futile, addled, entropic hazes; or to explode into the kind of
rage that wants to blow things up.

I knew a man once whose thing it was to wreck the toilets in office
buildings and write a slogan on the ruined walls: "If the cistern cannot be
changed it must be destroyed."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4132141,00.html