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secondhandedness

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  • But when you make changing the world a primary motive you place your psychic investments in the contents of other people’s minds- and that’s the most difficult thing of all to affect, and it encourages secondhandedness.

    On missing the point 2009

  • He listened to the music drifting through the house, the keyboard lament, and he finally identified the lurking presence in the story of Marvin’s search, the strange secondhandedness of all that exacting work, the retouching, the enhancements—it was an eerie replay of the investigations into the political murders of the 1960s.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • He listened to the music drifting through the house, the keyboard lament, and he finally identified the lurking presence in the story of Marvin’s search, the strange secondhandedness of all that exacting work, the retouching, the enhancements—it was an eerie replay of the investigations into the political murders of the 1960s.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • He listened to the music drifting through the house, the keyboard lament, and he finally identified the lurking presence in the story of Marvin’s search, the strange secondhandedness of all that exacting work, the retouching, the enhancements—it was an eerie replay of the investigations into the political murders of the 1960s.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

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