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1 " Just for a while" : Death's opening chat-up line in His great seduction, before he drugged you with soporific comforts, distracted you with minor luxuries and ensnared you with long-term payment plans.Join the Rat Race " just for a while." Concentrate on your career " just for a while." Move in with your girlfriend " just for a while." Find a bigger place, out in the burbs " just for a while." Lie down in that wooden box " just for a while. "
2 " And what we’ve been always been is…?”“Is living on borrowed time. Never caring about who’s paying for it, who’s starving somewhere else all jammed together so we can have cheap food, a house, a yard in the burbs … planetwide, more every day, the payback keeps gathering. And meantime the only help we get from the media is boo hoo the innocent dead. Boo fuckin hoo. You know what? All the dead are innocent. There’s no uninnocent dead.”After a while, “You’re not going to explain that, or…”“Course not, it’s a koan. "
― Thomas Pynchon , Bleeding Edge
