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To rule forever,” continues the Chinaman, later, “it is necessary only to create, among the people one would rule, what we call... Bad History. Nothing will produce Bad History more directly nor brutally, than drawing a Line, in particular a Right Line, the very Shape of Contempt, through the midst of a People, – to create thus a Distinction betwixt ‘em, – ’tis the first stroke. – All else will follow as if predestin’d, unto War and Devastation.

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Thomas Pynchon Quote: “To rule forever,” continues the Chinaman, later, “it is necessary only to create, among the people one would rule, what we call... Bad History. Nothing will produce Bad History more directly nor brutally, than drawing a Line, in particular a Right Line, the very Shape of Contempt, through the midst of a People, – to create thus a Distinction betwixt ‘em, – ’tis the first stroke. – All else will follow as if predestin’d, unto War and Devastation.”

“To rule forever,” continues the Chinaman, later, “it is necessary only to create, among the people one would rule, what we call... Bad History. Nothing will produce Bad History more directly nor brutally, than drawing a Line, in particular a Right Line, the very Shape of Contempt, through the midst of a People, – to create thus a Distinction betwixt ‘em, – ’tis the first stroke. – All else will follow as if predestin’d, unto War and Devastation.”

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Thomas Pynchon Quote: “To rule forever,” continues the Chinaman, later, “it is necessary only to create, among the people one would rule, what we call... Bad History. Nothing will produce Bad History more directly nor brutally, than drawing a Line, in particular a Right Line, the very Shape of Contempt, through the midst of a People, – to create thus a Distinction betwixt ‘em, – ’tis the first stroke. – All else will follow as if predestin’d, unto War and Devastation.”
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