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If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.

If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.

Thomas Pynchon
Truth, War, Asking Questions
Gravity's Rainbow episode 28 (1973)

The anarchist is dressed all in black. In the dark you can only see his eyes. It dates from the 1930's. Porky Pig is a little boy. The children told me that he has a nephew now, Cicero. Do you remember, during the war, when Porky worked in a defense plant? He and Bugs Bunny. That was a good one too.

Thomas Pynchon
Children, War, Eye
Thomas Pynchon (2012). “The Crying of Lot 49”, p.43, Penguin

My mother is the war,' declares Roger Mexico, leaning over to open the door.

Thomas Pynchon
Mother, War, Doors
Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Gravity's Rainbow”, p.33, Penguin

He gazes through sunlight's buttresses, back down the refectory at the others, wallowing in their plenitude of bananas, thick palatals of their hunger lost somewhere in the stretch of morning between them and himself. A hundred miles of it, so suddenly. Solitude, even among the meshes of this war, can when it wishes so take him by the blind gut and touch, as now, possessively. Pirate's again some other side of a window, watching strangers eat breakfast.

Thomas Pynchon
Morning, War, Pirate
Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Gravity's Rainbow”, p.12, Penguin

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