Quotes of teh Day, Every Day ...

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

          "We're nobody's protege this administration, State Department 
          hates our ass, NSC thinks we're scum, if Customs don't steal it 
          out from under us, Justice and FBI try to either run it or fuck it 
          up, and frankly," lowering his voice, "notice how cheap coke 
          has been since '81? However in the world do you account for 
          that?" 

          "Roy! Is you're sayin' the President himself is duked into some 
          deal? Quit foolin'! Next you'll be tellin' me George Bush." 

          Roy kept a prop Bible on his desk, useful when he needed to get 
          along with the born-agains in the Agency. He opened it and 
          pretended to read. "Harken unto me, read thou my lips, for verily 
          I say that wheresoever the CIA putteth in its meathooks upon the 
          world, there also are to be found those substances which God 
          may have created but the U.S. Code hath decided to control. 
          Get me? Now old Bush used to be head of CIA, so you figure
          it out." 

          Vineland, pgs.353/354

"This is America, you live in it, you let it happen. Let it unfurl."

--Oedipa Maas, in Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49 (1966)

"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to
worry about answers."

--Proverbs for Paranoids, in Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow (1973)