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"What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos."
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"We'll fight back, we'll fight back, we'll fight back," a man near Doctor Stockstill was chanting. Stockstill looked at him in astonishment, wondering who he would fight back against. Things were falling on them; did the man intend to fall back upward into the sky in some sort of revenge?"

"The clown is a creature of chaos. His appearance is an affront to our sense of dignity, his actions a mockery of our sense of order. The clown (freedom) is always being chased by the policeman (authority). Clowns are funny precisely because their shy hopes lead invariably to brief flings of (exhilarating?) disorder followed by crushing retaliation from the status quo. It delights us to watch a careless clown break taboos; it thrills us vicariously to watch him run wild and free; it reassures us to see him slapped down and order restored. After all, we can condone liberty only up to a point. Consider Jesus as a ragged, nonconforming clown--laughed at, persecuted and despised--playing out the dumb show at his crucifixion against the responsible pretensions of authority."

"The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one."

"The universe is not ordered, and it will not become so simply because one wishes it. The universe is chaos made manifest. The military does a fine job of creating an illusion of structure, of dependable rules to provide an answer for every situation. "But it is only an illusion, one which on its best days holds the chaos at bay."

"Zippy accepts chaos as what it is, which is the real order of everything."

"If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos."
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"If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe."

"Although a madman, Norton wrote letters to Abraham Lincoln and Queen Victoria which they took seriously."

"Safe sex - with a condom, rubber gloves and a wet suit is fine as long as you don't fall in love."

"Every few thousand years some shepard inhales smoke from a burning bush and has a vision or eats moldy rye bread in a cave and sees God."
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