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Page 15
... possible permutations and combinations was death . " 56 Or Barth's fourth possibility , four years before he published this con- clusion himself . Yet for Pynchon silence is not an ultimate horror . Despite its range and density , his ...
... possible permutations and combinations was death . " 56 Or Barth's fourth possibility , four years before he published this con- clusion himself . Yet for Pynchon silence is not an ultimate horror . Despite its range and density , his ...
Page 35
... possible military destruction of the world - very close to the themes of Vonnegut's two novels . In fif- teen years of writing Vonnegut had won success only in the topi- cally familiar but auctorially anonymous field of popular magazine ...
... possible military destruction of the world - very close to the themes of Vonnegut's two novels . In fif- teen years of writing Vonnegut had won success only in the topi- cally familiar but auctorially anonymous field of popular magazine ...
Page 154
... possible reason for its existence is that it has , in itself , the fact of reality and the pressure . . . . The old assumptions of beginning and end - those very neat assertions — have fallen away completely in a place where the only ...
... possible reason for its existence is that it has , in itself , the fact of reality and the pressure . . . . The old assumptions of beginning and end - those very neat assertions — have fallen away completely in a place where the only ...
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