If there is any political moral to be found in this world,” Stencil once wrote in his journal, “it is that we carry on the business of this century w… - Thomas Pynchon

Right and left; the hothouse and the street. The Right can only live and work hermetically, in the hothouse of the past, while outside the Left prosecute their affairs in the streets manipulated by mob violence. And cannot live but in the dreamscape of the future.

Culture attracts the worst impulses of the moneyed, it has no honor, it begs to be suburbanized and corrupted.

It creeped him out, the way it just sat there looking so plastic and harmless among the old-time good intentions of all that downtown architecture, no more sinister than a chain motel by the freeway, and yet behind its neutral drapes and far away down its fluorescent corridors it was swarming with all this strange alternate cop history and cop politics—cop dynasties, cop heroes and evildoers, saintly cops and psycho cops, cops too stupid to live and cops too smart for their own good—insulated by secret loyalties and codes of silence from the world they'd all be given to control, or, as they liked to put it, protect and serve.

Run away with me,” said Roseman when the coffee came. “Where?” she asked. That shut him up.