pynchon-humanity

‘…The moment you forget yourself enough to admit another’s humanity, see him as a person and not a symbol—then perhaps—’

‘What is humanity.’

‘You ask the obvious, ha, ha. Humanity is something to destroy.’

“The change of color is likely and a difference a very little difference is prepared. Sugar is not a vegetable.”

Gertrude Stein | “A Substance in a Cushion”