Now what sea is this you have crossed, exactly, and what sea is it you have plunged more than once to the bottom of, alerted, full of adrenalin, but caught really, buffaloed under the epistemologies of these threats that paranoid you so down and out, caught in this steel pot, softening to devataminized mush inside the soup-stock of your own words, your waste submarine breath?

Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow