Keep cool, but care.

“Some of us, if consciences had toenails, would be hanging on by just that margin. Yet conscience must find ways to go on operating inside history."
- árnyékjegy

"Whatever it is that's just about to happen, once it's over we'll say, oh well, it's history, should have seen it coming, and right now it's all I can do to get on with my life.”
- árnyékjegy

“Hatred of the Jew was sometimes almost beside the point. Modern anti-Semitism really went far beyond feelings, had become a source of energy, tremendous dark energy that could be tapped in to like an electric main for specific purposes…

This is America, you live in it, you let it happen.

“There is no real direction here, neither lines of power nor cooperation. Decisions are never really made – at best they manage to emerge, from a chaos of peeves, whims, hallucinations and all around assholery.”

“But nowadays, some kind of space he cannot go against has opened behind Slothrop, bridges that might have led back are down now for good.”

“If there is a life force operating in Nature, still there is nothing so analogous in a bureaucracy. Nothing so mystical. It all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men.”

I just got home from a fun tupperware party, but I think perhaps the hostess put too much kirsch in the fondue.