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“Dismiss the thought,” protested Lindsay from a certain equine altitude, “for it would make us no better than common thieves.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day

“This person greeted the Cohen by raising his left hand, then spreading the fingers two and two away from the thumb so as to form the Hebrew letter shin, signifying the initial letter of one of the pre-Mosaic (that is, plural) names of God, which may never be spoken. “Basically wishing long life and prosperity,” explained the Cohen, answering with the same gesture.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day

“Things, we are taught, are instances of ideas, concepts, and categories that are not themselves up for grabs. Blue is blue; boys are boys; big is big.”
― Daniel Coffeen, Reading the Way of Things: Towards a New Technology of Making Sense

“All of which is to say, the way we make sense of things is rarely to engage the things. We don’t confront the things before us as something different; we confront them as something we already know, as if everything fits into pre-ordained buckets of knowledge, as if those buckets weren’t themselves created, as if buckets and categories themselves weren’t buckets or categories that might impede knowing.”
― Daniel Coffeen, Reading the Way of Things: Towards a New Technology of Making Sense