He was doing missionary work. But from the outset he had little success in convincing his charges of their responsibility for a sin committed at the beginning of creation, one which, as they understood it, they were ready and capable (indeed, they carried charms to assure it) of duplicating themselves. He did no better convincing them that a man had died on a tree to save them all: an act which one old Indian, if Gwyon had translated correctly, regarded as "rank presumption".
Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law. - William Gaddis
Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.
- William Gaddis
If it is not beautiful for someone, it does not exist. - William Gaddis
If it is not beautiful for someone, it does not exist.
He walked out into the cold morning asking himself this heretical question: Can you start measuring a minute at any instant you wish? - William Gaddis
He walked out into the cold morning asking himself this heretical question: Can you start measuring a minute at any instant you wish?
We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are. - William Gaddis
We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are.
Power doesn't corrupt people; people corrupt power. - William Gaddis
Power doesn't corrupt people; people corrupt power.
I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there… - William Gaddis
I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there…
How real is any of the past, being every moment revalued to make the present possible. - William Gaddis
How real is any of the past, being every moment revalued to make the present possible.
It is the bliss of childhood that we are being warped most when we know it the least. - William Gaddis
It is the bliss of childhood that we are being warped most when we know it the least.
There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work. - William Gaddis
There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.
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