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Page 81
... begins , the profane and romantic coincide . Returning from the sub- urban secular world of a Tupperware party to find she has been named executor of Pierce Inverarity's will , Oedipa recalls that she had " conned herself into the ...
... begins , the profane and romantic coincide . Returning from the sub- urban secular world of a Tupperware party to find she has been named executor of Pierce Inverarity's will , Oedipa recalls that she had " conned herself into the ...
Page 84
... begins to exert its influence on her . During her first night in San Narciso she discovers that Inverarity either owned or had an interest in almost every commercial enterprise in the area . In rapid succession she receives a letter ...
... begins to exert its influence on her . During her first night in San Narciso she discovers that Inverarity either owned or had an interest in almost every commercial enterprise in the area . In rapid succession she receives a letter ...
Page 230
... begins to wonder " if the gemlike ' clues ' were only some kind of compensation . To make up for her having lost the direct , epileptic Word , the cry that might abolish the night " ( 87 ) . Oedipa recognizes that what held the ...
... begins to wonder " if the gemlike ' clues ' were only some kind of compensation . To make up for her having lost the direct , epileptic Word , the cry that might abolish the night " ( 87 ) . Oedipa recognizes that what held the ...
Contents
Baedeker Land | 65 |
Death Transfigured | 135 |
In Which Various Things Come Together | 187 |
Copyright | |
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