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[Perry Noid]

That reminds me of something I read in the new Murakami book. Something
like, "We can't violate God's will but we can make partial
adjustments." Which, in turn, reminded me of "You may never get to touch
the master but you can tickle his creatures."

The character who says it in the Murakami book is not really the type of
person to admire. He makes a living training Human Resources departments to
make people into better workers. He studied cults and Nazis to learn how to
control people. He says outcasts and people who think for themselves aren't
susceptible to his tricks of manipulation so he just dismisses them. It
makes me wonder if his quote, and Pynchon's, aren't necessarily words to
live by. Or maybe they are, the character is a very successful businessman
after all. But those are cynical words.

On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 2:39 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de
> wrote:

>
> Quote of the day:
>
> "Let me put it this way, the Golden Fang is still in business," Anderson
> comes around to saying. "And they've always been in business. And I don't
> see them getting out of business any time soon. Which is a drag, but maybe
> that's just the way that it is."
>
>
>
> On 31.10.2014 11:25, Mark Kohut wrote:
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>    *Los Angeles Times (@latimes
> <https://twitter.com/latimes?refsrc=email>)*
> 10/31/14, 4:25 AM
> <https://twitter.com/latimes/status/528115459401322496?refsrc=email>
> Filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson talks to @IndieFocus
> <https://twitter.com/IndieFocus> about taking on Thomas Pynchon's
> "Inherent Vice": lat.ms/1p9T4At <http://t.co/PDP6Ebgz1u>
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