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"Back on schedule. Eatin' beans and recievin' e-mail. Makin' love and teachin' class. Binary option and terciary paths." (65)

Sounds like another example of that duality that was oh-so-common in Dharma Bums. However, the Dharma Bums was almost constantly displaying duality from beginning to end, whereas this is the first example of duality I've found in this book. However, that could be because half of the documents in this book are barely coherent and the only recurring theme witnesses so far is racism and stereotypes.

"A tabloid mogul uttering the term compassion
A Republican with a forced Iroquois accent
Zen toilet without a hole or a seat" (72)

Until I got to these lines, I wasn't quite sure what the point of this writing was. Now I understand it's simply satire, given the title of this piece is 'Subtleties' and a tabloid mogul uttering the word 'compassion' is easily one of the less subtle things I can think of. Too bad I still can't understand the rest of the lines, since some of them are written in such an abstract way that only the author knows what he's talking about.