Donald Barthelme Quotes

I Have To Admit We Are Locked In The Most Exquisite Mysterious Muck. This Muck Heaves And Palpitates. It Is Multi-directional And Has A Mayor. To Describe It Takes Many Hundreds Of Thousands Of Words. Our Muck Is Only A Part Of A Much Greater Muck
The Nation-state
Which Is Itself The Creation Of That Muck Of Mucks, Human Consciousness. Of Course All These Things Also Have A Touch Of Sublimity
As When Moonbelly Sings, For Example, Or All The Lights Go Out. What A Happy Time That Was, When All The Electricity Went Away! If Only We Could Re-create That Paradise! By, For Instance, All Forgetting To Pay Our Electric Bills At The Same Time. All Nine Million Of Us. Then We'd All Get Those Little Notices That Say Unless We Remit Within Five Days The Lights Will Go Out. We All Stand Up From Our Chairs With The Notice In Ours Hands. The Same Thought Drifts Across The Furrowed Surface Of Nine Million Minds. We Wink At Each Other, Through The Walls.

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