The Grim Phoenix: Reconstructing Thomas Pynchon |
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... closed system . Pynchon is unusual , too , in using the concepts not in isolation but in their cultural contexts , of which science is only one aspect . Closed systems recur so often in his fiction that they require a series of ...
... closed system . Pynchon is unusual , too , in using the concepts not in isolation but in their cultural contexts , of which science is only one aspect . Closed systems recur so often in his fiction that they require a series of ...
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... closed system has in common with its representa- tion we would have to station ourselves outside the system . If Pyn- chon's closed system actually represented the world , he too would have to be stationed outside it . But Pynchon does ...
... closed system has in common with its representa- tion we would have to station ourselves outside the system . If Pyn- chon's closed system actually represented the world , he too would have to be stationed outside it . But Pynchon does ...
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... closed system - particularly information theory and the mapping of physi- cal space without the luxury of reflection . The thermodynamic and informational uses of the closed system , embellished with Adams's metaphorical construct , are ...
... closed system - particularly information theory and the mapping of physi- cal space without the luxury of reflection . The thermodynamic and informational uses of the closed system , embellished with Adams's metaphorical construct , are ...
Contents
Baedeker Land | 65 |
Death Transfigured | 135 |
In Which Various Things Come Together | 187 |
Copyright | |
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