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Page 153
... Tristero's being a fantasy , as if the truth - whatever it may be - were too great to face directly . Oedipa continues along her path of increasing isolation , being stripped of her men , love , community , and sense of order one by one ...
... Tristero's being a fantasy , as if the truth - whatever it may be - were too great to face directly . Oedipa continues along her path of increasing isolation , being stripped of her men , love , community , and sense of order one by one ...
Page 203
... Tristero , which Oedipa discovers . Oedipa herself may be an unwitting demon taking information about the Tristero , organizing it into a structure , and thereby sustaining life , the para- noid form . Or the Tristero may be a demon ...
... Tristero , which Oedipa discovers . Oedipa herself may be an unwitting demon taking information about the Tristero , organizing it into a structure , and thereby sustaining life , the para- noid form . Or the Tristero may be a demon ...
Page 204
... Tristero may only be a metaphor for relating the " parts " Oedipa discovers or it may be the locus for all information control . The social parallel to Nefastis's machine is suggested to Oedipa by Emory Bortz in a hypothetical merger of ...
... Tristero may only be a metaphor for relating the " parts " Oedipa discovers or it may be the locus for all information control . The social parallel to Nefastis's machine is suggested to Oedipa by Emory Bortz in a hypothetical merger of ...
Contents
Baedeker Land | 65 |
Death Transfigured | 135 |
In Which Various Things Come Together | 187 |
Copyright | |
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Adams's Baedeker Land become Blicero Callisto chaos characters closed system clues communication complex counterforce created Crying of Lot death transfigured demon discovers dream duality earth energy entropy Enzian existence facts fantasy Fausto film force Göll Gottfried Gravity's Rainbow Henry Adams Herbert Stencil Hereros human identity imagination inanimate information theory Inverarity Inverarity's isolated Karl Baedeker Katje Kekulé's landscape lives Malta Maxwell's demon meta-cartel metaphor Mondaugen movie narrator Nefastis's machine never noise observation Oedipa Maas Oneirine Paola paranoia past perception Pig Bodine plot Pointsman Pökler possible preterite Profane Puritan Pynchon's fiction Pynchon's novels quest Rathenau reader recognize Rocket role San Narciso sense signal zero Slothrop Stencil stories street structure symbol Tchitcherine theme things Thomas Pynchon tion tour tourist transformation Tristero Tyrone Slothrop uncertainty Valletta Vheissu Walter Rathenau Watts Weissmann Wittgenstein's words York zero Zone