Geek Love

by Katherine Dunn

“What greater gift could you offer your children than an inherent ability to earn a living just by being themselves?”

Now hope is a good feeling that needs risk to work. How good it is depends on how big the risk is if what you hope doesn’t happen. You hope your old auntie croaks and leaves you a carload of shekels, but she might leave them to her cat. You might not hit the target or win the stuffed dog, you might lose your money and look like a fool. You don’t get the surge without the risk. Well. Religion works the same way.

This scare stuff laps over into the hope department too. The hope you get from religion is a three-ring, all-star hope because the risk is outrageous.

You don’t want people to love you! All you really want is to know that you’re all right! That’s what can give you peace!

The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone’s comfort.”

‘The only liars bigger than the quack are the quack’s patients.’