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Quote #10
"Plunging aircraft," I said, pronouncing the words crisply, authoritatively.
He kicked off his sandals, folded himself over into the recommended crash position […] (39.59)
One weird side-effect of taking Dylar is the way that it numbs the part of our brains that distinguishes words from reality. Creepy. But in other parts of this book, DeLillo suggests that this sort of thing has already happened in the modern world, where kids like Heinrich only believe it's raining if the radio says so, and not if their eyes and ears say so. Media, in this case, is acting much like Dylar in that it's fusing images and reality and alleviating a fear of death.