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... continuity from novel to novel is simultaneously a record of the works ' achievement and the effective integration of form with con- tent . One of Pynchon's recurring metaphors is the accumulation of debris into layered deposits , each ...
... continuity from novel to novel is simultaneously a record of the works ' achievement and the effective integration of form with con- tent . One of Pynchon's recurring metaphors is the accumulation of debris into layered deposits , each ...
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... continuity of our spiritual existence after death " ( 1 ) . The novel ends with one of von Braun's rocket progeny at the last delta - t above the movie house that holds us all ; it shines like a " bright angel of death ” ( 760 ) . In ...
... continuity of our spiritual existence after death " ( 1 ) . The novel ends with one of von Braun's rocket progeny at the last delta - t above the movie house that holds us all ; it shines like a " bright angel of death ” ( 760 ) . In ...
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... continuity , show us a kinder universe , more easygoing .... ( 726 ) The aether sea of time and space may bring back a continuity - return us to the earth and its transfiguration - but it is the Rocket's sound that claims our attention ...
... continuity , show us a kinder universe , more easygoing .... ( 726 ) The aether sea of time and space may bring back a continuity - return us to the earth and its transfiguration - but it is the Rocket's sound that claims our attention ...
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