Tim

“Accept as the days and nights go by that you are a walking skeleton, an ambulatory miracle of meat. New thoughts come, but they arrive from beyond the foam, beyond the foam, beyond the foamy sponge of your brain.”
― Jon Padgett, The Secret of Ventriloquism

“Because all books ARE the Book of Job -- man in the crucible like Jack in the Box....”
― Stanley Elkin

“Parsons was Winston’s fellow employee at the Ministry of Truth. He was a fattish but active man of paralyzing stupidity, a mass of imbecile enthusiasms--one of those completely unquestioning, devoted drudges on whom, more even than on the thought police, the stability of the Party depended.”
― George Orwell

“The night after the dental pill murder fake out,”
― Jon Padgett, The Secret of Ventriloquism