A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now.
-Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
The first section ("Beyond the Zero") has a pretty interesting and hopeful epigraph from Wernher von Braun:
Nature does not know extinction; all it knows is transformation. Everything science has taught me, and continues to teach me, strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death.
-Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
The first section ("Beyond the Zero") has a pretty interesting and hopeful epigraph from Wernher von Braun:
Nature does not know extinction; all it knows is transformation. Everything science has taught me, and continues to teach me, strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death.
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Re: Favorite catastrophist opening line
Thu, November 6, 2003 - 1:30 PMnot necessarily fitting...though has stuck in my mind since I read it.
'People are afraid to merge on LA highways.'
-Brett Easton Ellis, Less Than Zero
