This is why so many highly intelligent people devote as much time in their lives to art as they possibly can.

It is only through art that you can begin to subvert an architecture of stolen and foreclosed futures.

In another world maybe Pynchon just became an unbelievably good editor for aeronautics technical journals.

Let us not forget that the rich, even on the allies side of WW2 (insofar as the rich keep up the theater of needing to pick a side) **would rather not have had even a single Alan Turing if they could not impose a conservative trauma upon him and make him deny his basic self, and so he was executed.