Equally post-essayistic is a diptych made up of "Top-Five Depressed Superheroes" (Ragman, Deadman and others I knew naught of) and a Playboy sketch about Lethem's own fabrication, the Epiphany, whose archenemy is named Le Petit Mort and whose acolytes are Eureka!, Tour de Force and Non Sequitur.
DeLacey knows naught of this, but intends to make her marry him anyway.
"We all know this will come to naught.
Someone reading a journal article may never know about all the similar experiments that came to naught.
"Hunting, fishing, drawing, and musicoccupied my every moment; cares I knew not, and cared naught aboutthem".
"One who previously engaged in jihad knows that it is naught but violence, crudeness, terrorism, [deterrence] and massacring," Naji writes, as translated by McCants.
I know how my carefully-planned and executed packing and preparing for camp will be for naught.
Now we know some more about nautical engineering and this boat is going at about seven naughts.
And you shall know it — you teeming masses who squirm and squabble to suck at the benevolent teat of Hollywood, seeking naught but a brief escape from the hellish quotidian that is your lives.
I know about the world, from our unimportant place in this accidental chaos to the way everything is materialism and naught else.
