What's this? What are the antagonists doing here - infiltrating their own audience? Well, they're not really. It's somebody else's audience at the moment, and these nightly spectacles are an appreciable part of the darkside hours of life of the rocket capital. The chances for any paradox here, really, are less than you think.
("Gravity's Rainbow")
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If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers.
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You know what a miracle is... another world's intrusion into this one.
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