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".
William GaddisWhy do you treat me as they do, as though I were exactly what I want to be. Why do we treat people that way?
William GaddisIt is the bliss of childhood that we are being warped most when we know it the least.
William GaddisWe're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are.
William Gaddis