#35

“Tell a girl: 'I love you.' No trouble with two-thirds of that, it's a closed circuit. Just you and she. But that nasty four-letter word in the middle, that's the one you have to look out for. Ambiguity. Redundance. Irrelevance, even. Leakage. All this is noise. Noise screws up your signal, makes for disorganization in the circuit” (id: 90-91).

#34

“But as we all know, rock 'n' roll will never die, and education too, as Henry Adams always sez, keeps going on forever” (Pynchon, 1985: 23).

PYNCHON, Thomas (1985). Slow Learner {Early Stories}. New York, Boston, London: Little, Brown and Company.