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• A pig is a jolly companion, Boar, sow, barrow, or gilt -- A pig is a pal, who'll boost your morale, Though mountains may topple and tilt.
  When they've blackballed, bamboozled, and burned you, When they've turned on you, Tory and Whig, Though you may be thrown over by Tabby and Rover, You'll never go wrong with a pig, a pig, You'll never go wrong with a pig!...
• Murphy's Law, that brash proletarian restatement of Godel's Theorem.
  .. -- Thomas S. Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow...
• There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.
  .. -- Thomas S. Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow...
• Murphy's Law, that brash proletarian restatement of Godel's Theorem .
  .." -- Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow...
• he prevailing Catholic odor - incense, wax, centuries of mild bleating from the lips of the flock.
  -- Thomas S. Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow...