Quotes About Muchness

The excitement and glamour of living in New York had always, for Updike, come bundled with less agreeable sensations. He felt "crowded, physically and spiritually" by the city's "ghastly plentitude, its inexhaustible and endlessly repeated urban muchness.

They drew all manner of things—everything that begins with an M… such as mousetraps, and the moon, and memory, and muchness—you know you say things are "much of a muchness."