You can learn more by going to the opera than you ever can by reading Emerson. Like that there are two sexes.

Can Protagonist think of a single film that interests him as much as the three-hundredth best book he ever read?

Was it really some other person I was so anxious to discover...or was it only my own solitude that I could not abide?

You can learn more by going to the opera than you ever can by reading Emerson. Like that there are two sexes.

I also believe I met William Gaddis once. He did not look Italian.

Doubtless these are inconsequential perplexities. Still, inconsequential perplexities have now and again been known to become the fundamental mood of existence, one suspects.

In fact one frequently seemed to gather all sorts of similar information about subjects one had less than profound interest in.