Thursday, March 3, 2011

Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow page 219

"You're her mother . . . what if they arrest you, what happens to her?"

"That's what they--Peter can't you see, they want a great swollen tit with some atrophied excuse for a human, bleating around somewhere in its shadows. How can I be human for her? Not her mother. 'Mother,' that's a civil-service category, Mothers work for Them!"

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