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  1. Don DeLillo _ Zero K

    These are the soporifics of normalcy, my days in middling drift.
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  2. Don DeLillo _ Zero K

    This is how I thought of it. An intuitive link, a reciprocal, one number related to another in such a way that when multiplied together, day or night, their product is one.
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  3. Don DeLillo _ Zero K

    This is what long journeys are for. To see what's back behind you, lengthen the view, find the patterns, know the people, consider the significance of one matter or another and then curse yourself or bless yourself or tell yourself, in my father's situation, that you'll have a chance to do it all over again, with variations. He"
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  4. Don DeLillo _ Zero K

    This is all happening in the future. This future, this instant. If you can't absorb this idea, best go home now." I
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  5. Don DeLillo _ Zero K

    Technology has become a force of nature. We can't control it. It comes blowing over the planet and there's nowhere for us to hide.
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  6. Don DeLillo _ Zero K

    Too much engenders too much.
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  7. Don DeLillo _ Zero K

    I could feel myself lapsing into my smallest self, all the vainglorious ideas around me shrunk into personal reverie because what am I in this place but someone in need of self-defense. •
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  8. Don DeLillo _ Zero K

    I'd been doing this for a while, attempting to define a word for an object or even a concept. Define loyalty, define truth. I had to stop before it killed me. The
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  9. Don DeLillo _ Zero K

    I maintain myself on the puppet drug of personal technology. Every touch of a button brings the neural rush of finding something I never knew and never needed to know until it appears at my anxious fingertips, where it remains for a shaky second before disappearing forever. My
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  10. Don DeLillo _ Zero K

    People getting older become more fond of objects. I think this is true. Particular things. A leather-bound book, a piece of furniture, a photograph, a painting, the frame that holds the painting. These things make the past seem permanent. A baseball signed by a famous player, long dead. A simple coffee mug. Things we trust. They tell an important story. A person's life, all those who entered and left, there's a depth, a richness.
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  11. Don DeLillo _ Zero K

    The moment is there to be forgotten. This seems the ultimate point. It's a moment never to be thought of except when it's in the process of unfolding. Maybe this is why it doesn't seem peculiar. It is only me. I don't think about it. I simply live within it and then leave it behind.
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  12. Don DeLillo _ Zero K

    The book was a challenge, a secondhand paperback crammed with huge and violent emotions in small crowded type on waterlogged pages.
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