proverbs for paranoids

pynchonoid pynchonoid at yahoo.com
Mon Feb 10 13:38:38 CST 2003


Saddam Hussein, a paranoid dictator caught in a
Catch-22

Saddam Hussein has been described as the classic
paranoid dictator. But encircled by U.S. forces that
will eventually number more than 175,000, he also has
real enemies. [...] 

Toronto Star
9 February 2003
<http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1035777605683&call_pageid=968332188854&col=968350060724>


Proverbs for Paranoids

1.	You may never get to touch the Master, but you can
tickle his creatures." 237 
2.	The innocence of the creatures is in inverse
proportion to the immorality of the Master." 241 
3.	If they can get you asking the wrong questions,
they don't have to worry about answers." 251 
4.	You hide, they seek." 262 
5.	"Paranoids are not paranoids (Proverb 5) because
they're paranoid, but because they keep putting
themselves, fucking idiots, deliberately into paranoid
situations." 292 

<http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/gravity/alpha/p-q.html#proverbs>


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