An otherwise good reader and critic is quoting this as by Thomas Pynchon. This EXACT quote is not in any pynchon but something close is in Inherent Vice, right? Help, Pynchon hive mind

[Paul Mackin]

“There is no real direction here, neither lines of power nor cooperation.
Decisions are never really made – at best they manage to emerge, from a
chaos of peeves, whims, hallucinations and all around assholery. ”

On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 10:07 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Like when a record needle is placed on a record, I once thought.
>
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 10:02 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > "I think he's got it!"...There is a three dot ellipsis--as I just did and
> > love to do obviously too influenced by the guy-- between the two
> sentences
> > which ruin an exact bit by bit search...
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 9:56 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> "What goes around may come around, but it never ends up in exactly the
> >> same place, you ever notice? Like a record on a turntable, all it takes
> is
> >> one groove's difference and the universe can be on into a whole 'nother
> >> song."
> >>
> >
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