Point Omega (2010) (edit title/settings)

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• Jessie: Elster's daughter, a 20-something beautiful girl who says very little but still manages to be interesting. She shows up at the desert home at the request of Elster's ex-wife.
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• Norman Bates
• Janet Leigh
• Anthony Perkins
• Jerry
• Dennis
• Arbogast

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• “We want to be the dead matter that we used to be. We're the last billionth of a second in the evolution of matter. When I was a student I looked for radical ideas. Scientists, theologians, I read the work of mystics through the centuries, I was a hungry mind, a pure mind. I filled notebooks with my versions of world philosophy. Look at us today.”

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• “We’re a crowd, a swarm. We think in groups, travel in armies. Armies carry the gene for self-destruction. One bomb is never enough. The blur of technology, this is where the oracles plot their wars. Because now comes the introversion. Father Teilhard knew this, the omega point. A leap out of our biology. Ask yourself this question. Do we have to be human forever? Consciousness is exhausted. Back now to inorganic matter. This is what we want. We want to be stones in a field.”

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• Point omega. A million years away. The omega point has narrowed, here and now, to the point of a knife as it enters a body. All the man’s grand themes funneled down to local grief, one body, out there somewhere, or not.

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• It’s all embedded, the hours and minutes, words and numbers everywhere, he said, train stations, bus routes, taxi meters, surveillance cameras. 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 all the 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.

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• The less there was to see, the harder he looked, the more he saw. This was the point. To see what’s here, finally to look and to know you’re looking, to feel time passing, to be alive to what is happening in the smallest registers of motion.

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• New York

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Don DeLillo (Author)

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• Library of Congress: PS3554.E4425 P65 2010
• Dewey: 813.54

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• Books › Literature & Fiction › Authors, A-Z › ( D ) › DeLillo, Don
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Genre Fiction › War
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Literary

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