Bartlett's Familiar Pynchon

[Peter Petto]

I'd imagine this favorite of mine might be a bit too long for a  
catalog of quotations, but hopefully I'm wrong.

> Who claims Truth, Truth abandons. History is hir'd, or coerc'd, only  
> in Interests that must ever prove base. She is too innocent, to be  
> left within the reach of anyone in Power, -- who need but touch her,  
> and all her Credit is in the instant vanish'd, as if it had never  
> been. She needs rather to be tended lovingly and honorably by  
> fabulists and counterfeiters, Ballad-Mongers and Cranks of ev'ry  
> Radius, Masters of Disguise to provide her the Costume, Toilette,  
> and Bearing, and Speech nimble enough to keep her beyond the  
> Desires, or even the Curiosity, of Government.


    Peter++


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Peter Petto <ppetto at ppetto.com>
Bay Village, OH




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