Remember, God didn't say, 'I'm gonna make light now,' he said, 'Let there be light.' His first act was to <i>allow light in</i> to what had been Noth… - Thomas Pynchon

"After the 11 September attack," March editorializes one morning, "amid all that chaos and confusion, a hole quietly opened up in American history, a vacuum of accountability, into which assets human and financial begin to vanish. Back in the days of hippie simplicity, people liked to blame 'the CIA' or 'a secret rogue operation.' But this is a new enemy, unnamable, locatable on no organization chart or budget line — who knows, maybe even the CIA's scared of them."

You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.

People in this town saw only what they'd all agreed to see, they believed what was on the tube or in the morning papers half of them read while they were driving to work on the freeway, and it was all their dream about being wised up, about the truth setting them free.