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... described a Tralfamadorian novel , and the scheme is familiar of recent innovative works on our own planet , including those of Brau- tigan , Katz , Barthelme , Kosinski , Coover , and Vonnegut himself : each clump of symbols is a brief ...
... described a Tralfamadorian novel , and the scheme is familiar of recent innovative works on our own planet , including those of Brau- tigan , Katz , Barthelme , Kosinski , Coover , and Vonnegut himself : each clump of symbols is a brief ...
Page 69
... described by secretaries , an administrative assistant , a former teacher , and a friend . But they are simply glimpses , hard to pin down , and some- times ambiguous . Reading a newspaper , he is amused by anecdotes , depressed by ...
... described by secretaries , an administrative assistant , a former teacher , and a friend . But they are simply glimpses , hard to pin down , and some- times ambiguous . Reading a newspaper , he is amused by anecdotes , depressed by ...
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... described in Steps . Rather , he is an absolute blank , drawing his reality from the forms he sees on TV . Once he enters the world his lack of substance is made clear to the reader . Perusing a lawyer's document , he does not know how ...
... described in Steps . Rather , he is an absolute blank , drawing his reality from the forms he sees on TV . Once he enters the world his lack of substance is made clear to the reader . Perusing a lawyer's document , he does not know how ...
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