Junkyard Quotes 1-4, Week 11

1.  "...tractor beam of the event."  (Dr. Davidson)

2.  "So shines a good deed in a weary world." (Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice)

3.  "And just such a COCK-AND-BULL story is by this last confession brought quite to its conclusion."  (Rushdie, "Yorick" from East, West)

4.  "Have you noticed that Amsterdam's concentric canals resemble the circles of hell?  The middle-class hell, of course, peopled with bad dreams.  When one comes from the outside, as one gradually goes through those circles, life--and hence its crimes--becomes denser, darker.  Here, we are in the last circle."  (Camus, The Fall)