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Page 12
... characters numbered in the hundreds and plots became Byzantine if not fully incomprehensible . The Crying of Lot 49 , while more eco- nomical in its donnée , spoke directly to the notion of plot - or con- spiracy , as the paranoid ...
... characters numbered in the hundreds and plots became Byzantine if not fully incomprehensible . The Crying of Lot 49 , while more eco- nomical in its donnée , spoke directly to the notion of plot - or con- spiracy , as the paranoid ...
Page 130
... characters . In the process of recording , or gradually re- vealing mental and physical experiences organized into aesthetic and ethical form , these works progress toward a definite goal : the dis- covery of knowledge . " But Beckett's ...
... characters . In the process of recording , or gradually re- vealing mental and physical experiences organized into aesthetic and ethical form , these works progress toward a definite goal : the dis- covery of knowledge . " But Beckett's ...
Page 164
... character is held against another , the reader is given over to the movement of the story in terms of these characters ' appurtenances and acts , and at the end , he turns the tables on you , a writer's joke . Which certainly indicates ...
... character is held against another , the reader is given over to the movement of the story in terms of these characters ' appurtenances and acts , and at the end , he turns the tables on you , a writer's joke . Which certainly indicates ...
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