White Noise

by Don DeLillo

The small stiff beard, confined to his chin and unaccompanied by a mustache, seemed an optional component, to be stuck on or removed as circumstances warranted.

He himself was tall, paunchy, ruddy, jowly, big-footed and dull. A formidable combination. I

People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it.

Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.”

They didn’t prepare us for this at the death simulator in Denver.

I sensed his support for my little mission, even his hopeful conviction that I might be able to add the balanced weight of a mature and considered judgment to his pure observations. This is a parent’s task, after all.

bread in the oven, table set for three, a mystery to haunt the generations.

“The greater the scientific advance, the more primitive the fear.”

astonish posterity.

The cycle of history has but four ages. We happen to be in the last of these. There is little time for whimsy.”

Gibberish but high-quality gibberish.

Everything we need that is not food or love is here in the tabloid racks.