Devices make us pliant. We want to please them. The machine was his only hope of deliverance after what he'd done, what he'd loosed into the crowd. A way out of death. - (362)
Don DeLilloAbout author
- Author's profession: Novelist
- Nationality: american
- Born: November 20, 1936
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