It's all about time, dimwit time, inferior time, people checking watches and other devices, other reminders. This is time draining out of our lives. Cities were built to measure time, to remove time from nature. There's an endless counting down, he said. When you strip away surfaces, when you see into it, what's left is terror. This is the thing that literature was meant to cure. The epic poem, the bedtime story. β¨ Don DeLillo (2010). Point Omega, p.36, Pan Macmillan
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- I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism. β¨ Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). Conversations with Don DeLillo, p.79, Univ. P β¦ βΆ
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