Inherent Jest @inherent_jest
Inherent Jest is an ICONIC novel written by author Thomas Pynchon wearing a white bandanna. It was originally published in August 1996. Joined July 2018-
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they decline the psychic costs of being around other humans.
I had kind of a midlife crisis at twenty which their real genius is for making the people around them think they themselves are crazy
Questions arose. Like, what in the fuck was going on here, basically probably doesnt augur well for my longevity.
Keep cool but care probably doesnt augur well for my longevity.
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, Might as well trust somebody evil once in a while, it makes no more or less sense
What was “walking on water,” if it wasn’t Bible talk for surfing? Like a record on a turntable, all it takes is one groove's difference and the universe can be on into a whole 'nother song
What was “walking on water,” if it wasn’t Bible talk for surfing? "The library, and step on it.”
You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you probably doesnt augur well for my longevity.
Why should things be easy to understand? only to the claim jumped by evildoers known all too well, and taken instead and held hostage to the future we must live in now forever
Keep cool but care what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do
The general public has long been divded into two parts;
And Lo, for the Earth was empty of Form, and void way deep down they are different from everyone else
And Lo, for the Earth was empty of Form, and void Shall I project a world?
What was “walking on water,” if it wasn’t Bible talk for surfing? You get someone who stays up all night torturing himself mentally over the question of whether or not there's a dog
Questions arose. Like, what in the fuck was going on here, basically These things you find so weak and contemptible in us---these are just the hazards of being free
What goes around may come around, and then you've got to get back up onto the freeway again
I had kind of a midlife crisis at twenty which Shall I project a world?
Hair and drug-use issues notwithstanding, I've never thought of you as any less than professional People affect them too strongly.
Questions arose. Like, what in the fuck was going on here, basically But not until it is finished with you

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