D. DeLillo – Mao II

Who do we take seriously? Only the lethal believer, the person who kills and dies for faith. Everything else is absorbed. The artist is absorbed, the madman in the street is absorbed and processed and incorporated. Give him a dollar, put him in a TV commercial. Only the terrorist stands outside. The culture hasn’t figured out how to assimilate him.

T. Pynchon – Against the Day #1

“Anti-Semitism flows directly from suburban fear of those who are always on the move, who set up camp for a night, or pay rent, unlike the Good Citizen who belives he ‘owns’ his home, although it is more likely to be owned by a bank, perhaps even a Jewish bank.”

Pure Pynchon brilliance. He got’s his bird-eye on the whole society and always sees more.