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Don DeLillo _ Mao II
I don't like not believing. I'm not at peace with it. I take comfort when others believe." "Karen thinks God is here. Like walkin' and talkin'." "I want others to believe, you see. Many believers everywhere. I feel the enormous importance of this. When I was in Catania and saw hundreds of running men pulling a saint on a float through the streets, absolutely running. When I saw people crawl for miles on their knees in Mexico City on the Day of the Virgin, leaving blood on the basilica steps and then joining the crowd inside, the crush, so many people that there was no air. Always blood. The Day of Blood in Teheran. I need these people to believe for me. I cling to believers. Many, everywhere. Without them, the planet goes cold.
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Don DeLillo _ Mao II
When the Old God leaves the world, what happens to all the unexpended faith?
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Don DeLillo _ Mao II
Old hospitals with saints' names are the ones you want to go to if you have cuts and abrasions. They haven't forgotten how to treat the classic Crusader wounds.
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Don DeLillo _ Mao II
When a writer doesn't show his face, he becomes a local symptom of God's famous reluctance to appear.
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Don DeLillo _ Mao II
News of disaster is the only narrative people need. The darker the news, the grander the narrative. News is the last addiction before-what? I don't know. But you're smart to trap us in your camera before we disappear.
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Don DeLillo _ Mao II
When a writer doesn't show his face, he becomes a local symptom of God's famous reluctance to appear."We're all drawn to remoteness. A hard-to-reach place is necessarily beautiful. Beautiful and a little sacred, maybe. And a person who becomes inaccessible has a grace and wholeness the rest of us envy.
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Don DeLillo _ Mao II
She saw the normative life of the planet, business people crossing streets beneath glass towers, the life of sitting on buses that take you logically to destinations, the unnerved surface of rolling plausibly along.
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Don DeLillo _ Mao II
Through history it's the novelist who has felt affinity for the violent man who lives in the dark. Where are your sympathies? With the colonial police, the occupier, the rich landlord, the corrupt government, the militaristic state? Or with the terrorist?
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Don DeLillo _ Mao II
I've heard about a man and woman who are walking the length of the Great Wall of China, approaching each other from opposite directions. Every time I think of them, I see them from above., with the Wall twisting and winding through the landscape and two tiny human figures moving toward each other from remote provinces, step by step. I think this is a story of reverence for the planet, of trying to understand how we belong to the planet in a new way. And it's strange how I construct an aerial view so naturally.
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Don DeLillo _ Mao II
The letters released something, maybe a sense that he was not alone, that the world was a place where travelers in language could know the same things.
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Don DeLillo _ Mao II
A clean light soaked into the shaggy bark of a eucalyptus and it was a powerful thing to see, the whole tree glowed, it showed electric and intense, the branches ran to soft fire, the tree seemed revealed.
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Don DeLillo _ Mao II
He lay in bed open-eyed in the dark. There were intestinal moans from his left side, where gas makes a hairpin turn at the splenic flexure. He felt a mass of phlegm wobbling in his throat but he didn't want to get out of bed to expel it, so he swallowed the whole nasty business, a slick syrupy glop. This was the texture of his life. If someone ever writes his true biography, it will be a chronicle of gas pains and skipped heartbeats, grinding teeth and dizzy spells and smothered breath, with detailed descriptions of Bill leaving his desk to walk to the bathroom and spit up mucus, and we see photographs of ellipsoid clots of cells, water, organic slimes, mineral salts and spotty nicotine. Or descriptions just as long and detailed of Bill staying where he is and swallowing.
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