Days [ ) Entrust | Thomas Pynchon, 1973

David Seymour, Boy with Handmade Toy in the Ruins of the War Ravaged City, Vienna, 1948

“Don’t forget the real business of the war is buying and selling.
The murdering and the violence are self-policing, and can be
entrusted to non-professionals.”

Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow, 1973

Also:
The Displaced Persons Song | Thomas Pynchon, 1973
Days [ ) Amnesiac | Thomas Pynchon, 2006
Alphabetarion # If | Thomas Pynchon, 1973