Tuesday, February 23, 2021

Anti-paranoia

 If there is something comforting—religious, if you want—about paranoia, there is still also anti-paranoia, where nothing is connected to anything, a condition not many of us can bear for long. 

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Either They have put him here for a reason, or he’s just here. He isn’t sure that he wouldn’t, actually, rather have that reason…

 - Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow