American Gods
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I have a piece of paper. But I want this salt shaker. You have the salt shaker but you're willing to take my piece of paper for your salt shaker. Now, why would you do that? Because this isn't actually a piece of paper. It's a story. And the story you've heard over and over and over again is to convince you that this is worth something, this is of value. No matter what country or culture or religion. The whole world loves money. The greatest story ever told.
Wednesday
A woman's heart should never be so hidden in God that she cannot hear her own truth.
Bilquis
Money. The most influential god in America. Untouchable asshole but his stock never falls.
Wednesday
Only humans could have come up with monogamy. An unnatural concept.
Wednesday
Shall we seize the day by the ass before she finds a new dance partner?
Wednesday
They're different when they come back. Like any formative life experience, death changes you.
Mr. Ibis
Mr. Ibis: It's strange when they talk about 'African-Americans'. My colleagues and I never thought of ourselves as African. We were the People of the Nile.
Shadow: And then you settled in a town called Cairo. Seems appropriate.
Mr. Ibis: Eh... Chicken...Egg...
Coroners are a political appointment around here. His job is to kick the corpse. If it doesn't kick him back, he signs a death certificate.
Mr. Ibis
I translated all of Bach's cantatas into a database that wrote a program that segmented the notes into digital objects the way that Bach statistically attended to... But everything it created was mechanical, artificial. The real insight was in programming violations to predictable variations. I gave it permission to shatter the rules.
Son
This is grief. And yet, the rising notes of joy, shattering his own rules. Can you hear it? This is how men like me pray.
Father
Revelations come when ready, not when requested.
Wednesday
I don't want luck. I want peace.
Shadow
