乖，摸摸头

因果。因果最大。因、缘、果。因缘果报，因机缘果。因无缘，则不果，机不投，因不果。因，主因；缘，助缘；机，通积；果，结果。因果相随，机缘自然，时机不到，因缘不生……如此使然。世间之因果、出世间之因果、迷界之因果、悟界之因果……莫不如此。

圭恰迪尼格言集

生命中没有一件事比亲眼见到你的仇敌在你面前跪地求饶更称心快意，更显得荣耀非常。而一旦处置得当，荣耀更会倍增。宽恕敌人，在胜利面前适可而止，是适宜的。

新千年文学备忘录

珀尔修斯的力量永远来自他拒绝直视，但不是拒绝他注定要生活于其中的现实。他随身携带着这现实，把它当作他的特殊负担来接受。

如何读，为什么读

Melville was not a Christian, and tended to identify with the ancient Gnostic heresy, in which the creator God of this world is a bungler and impostor, while the true God, called the Stranger or Alien God, is exiled somewhere in the outer regions of the cosmos.Early, major Faulkner is a kind of unknowing Gnostic; West, Pynchon, and McCarthy in their different ways are very knowing indeed. My subject is how to read their best fiction, and why, and not how to instruct my own readers in ancient heterodoxies (at least not here!), but the first sequence of four novels that I have chosen, in the wake of Melville, achieve their negative splendors in modes parallel to Gnostic visions, as we will see.