Subordinate of H. Himmler, may have played role in Himmler’s not yet fully explained death in 1948.
I got you out of the police barracks the best way I could,” a male voice – the same that Joe had heard on the radio – said. “A strange way,” Joe said. “To you strange. Strange to me have been a number of things you’ve done since the time I first became aware of you.” Joe said, “Like giving away my coins.” “No, I understood that. What strikes me as odd is your having sat for all those months in your work cubicle, waiting.
I’ve married before and it was no better, and if I divorce Kathy I’ll marry again – because as my brainbasher puts it I can’t find my identity outside the role of husband and daddy and big butter-and-egg-man wage earner – and the next damn one will be the same because that’s the kind I select. It’s rooted in my temperament.
The horse-shoe nail. Remember the old poem? ‘For want of a nail the shoe was lost. For want of the shoe the horse was lost. For want of the horse the rider was lost. For want –.
There was one, a Mr. Omuro, who had bought control of a great area of rental property in downtown San Francisco, and who for a time had been Frank’s landlord. There was a bad apple, he thought. A shark who had never made repairs, had partitioned rooms smaller and smaller, raised rents.
I seem to be living in my own novels more and more. I can’t figure out why. Am I losing touch with reality? Or is reality actually sliding toward a Phil Dickian type of atmosphere? And if the latter, then for god’s sake why? Am I responsible? How could I be responsible? Isn’t that solipsism? It’s too much for me.
Thomas,” Fat told me, “is smarter than I am, and he knows more than I do. Of the two of us Thomas is the master personality.” He considered that good; woe unto someone who has an evil or stupid other personality in his head!
The dissatisfaction of the masses is not based on economic deprivation but on a sense of ineffectually. Not an increased standard of living, but more social power, is their fundamental goal, because of their emotional orientation, they arise and act when a powerful leader-figure can coordinate them into a functioning unit rather than a chaotic mass of unformed elements. Dill.
It is only through the breakdown of his ordinary reality that he can be in-formed by the suprasensual reality of the divine letter: the Logos. Here, as in the famous opening of the Gospel of John – “In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God” – language becomes an “active agent” that is actually prior to material reality.
It does not have wabi,” Paul said, “nor could it ever. But – ” He touched the pin with his nail. “Robert, this object has wu.
Plastics. Polyesters. Resins. Ersatz – industrial uses. Do you see? No consumers’ commodities.
Caroline said, “She’s terribly, terribly disruptive.” “So is reality,” Hawthorne said.
I wonder, he wondered, if any human has ever felt this way before about an android.
Simple Shepherd Mortuary.
The ignorance of the dark-skinned strata, despite the government’s ceaseless educational campaigns. No wonder their women were often preg.
We have no value, she said to herself. We can live out our tiny lives. If we want to. If it matters to us.
Baritone, cultivated, rolling-out-smooth voice familiar to Reiss. ‘This is Doktor Goebbels.
Guilt is useless. The world torments us, and we react by tormenting ourselves. I wonder how we can ever have such a low opinion of ourselves that we join in.
You cook the native foods to perfection, Robert Childan thought. What they say is true: your powers of imitation are immense. Apple pie, Coca-Cola, stroll after the movie, Glenn Miller... you could paste together out of tin and rice paper a completely artificial America. Rice-paper Mom in the kitchen, rice-paper Dad reading the newspaper. Rice-paper put at his feet. Everything.
Everything’s the same, when you break through to absolute reality; it’s all one vast blur.