Operation Wandering Soul Quotes

“Radio does its thing, successfully distracting him from sustained thought.”
― Richard Powers, Operation Wandering Soul: A Novel

“him. The instant this following distance exceeds a car length, the two vehicles on either side both try to slither in. Proof. This shot-blast stream of continuous lane change is not prompted by anything so naïve as the belief that the other queue is actually moving faster. The open spot simply must be filled on moral grounds. A question of commonweal. Switching into a slower-moving lane gives you something to do while tooling (tooling; that’s the ticket) along at substandard speed through the work crews surfacing the next supplementary sixteen-lane expansion. Fills the otherwise-idle nanosecond. A way to absorb extraneous frontier spirit.”
― Richard Powers, Operation Wandering Soul: A Novel