Continuing to read The Ground Beneath Her Feet.

Chap. 14 The Whole Catastrophe

Quotations:

• "I think that's what each of us is, a part of some larger river, and no matter how muddy and poisoned any individual bit of the river might be, you can still pick up the sense of that larger flow, that great and generous water." [p. 427]
• "We celebrate donut culture, it's sweet and it tastes good, but there's a void at the heart." [p. 432]
• "There was no continuity in human lives any more." [p. 440]
• "My idea was that the war in Indochina hadn't ended at the time of the ignominious U.S. withdrawal. They'd left a wooden horse standing at the gates, and when the Indochinese accepted the gift, the real warriors of America - the big corporations, the sports culture of basketball and baseball, and of course, rock 'n' roll - came swarming out of its belly and overran the place." [p 441]
• "Discontinuity , the forgetting of the past." [p. 441]
• "Virginia Woolf: A masterpiece is not the result of a sudden inspiration but the product of a lifetime of thought.". [p. 446]