There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.
("Gravity's Rainbow")
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For a moment she'd wondered if the seal around her sockets were tight enough to allow the tears simply to go on and fill up the entire lens space and never dry. She could carry the sadness of the moment with her that way forever, see the world refracted through those tears, those specific tears, as if indices as yet unfound varied in important ways from cry to cry.
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Everybody who says the same words is the same person if the spectra are the same only they happen differently in time, you dig? But the time is arbitrary. You pick your zero point anywhere you want, that way you can shuffle each person's time line sideways till they all coincide.
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She would give them order. She would create constellations.
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No language meant no chance of co-opting them in to what their round and flaxen invaders were calling Salvation.
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