Chapter 17, page 256 (in my copy)
The judge speaking:
“The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a muddled field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.”
Just found it interesting. He may have toyed with this idea for a long time before incorporating it into his final two novels. Thought I’d share.
by dustyfetus