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Gaming having taught her to pay attention to anything that didn’t fit,
addicted to nostalgia for things you’d never known.
the whole place having that look of never having been touched by human hands.
“Okay,” she said, not feeling that anything particularly was.
An annoyingly seamless absence.
People were so fantastically boring.
“It’s a white people thing, Luke 4:5? Never paid ’em any attention.” “‘And the devil, taking him up into a high mountain, showed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.’”
“Altruism? What’s happening to you?” “I don’t know,” he said.
it worried her that she couldn’t feel more about it.
I feel hindered by a surfeit of information, oceanic to the point of meaninglessness.
“So now they get to throw money at it,” Flynne said. “They’re good at that.
but there’s a crudeness of mind behind this business. Best we have our own options for crudeness.”
“Opportunities to do very badly were manifold. You avoided them. The major part in any success.”
never more than the cumulative weight of ordinary human baseness.
