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... course , must plot events on the grid of these two axes and the reader is left to resolve Pynchon's ambiguities . Although Pynchon uses Adams and Machiavelli to establish the tension between human control and accident , he certainly has ...
... course , must plot events on the grid of these two axes and the reader is left to resolve Pynchon's ambiguities . Although Pynchon uses Adams and Machiavelli to establish the tension between human control and accident , he certainly has ...
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... course , the best example of the failure of his machine . In expressing his preference for sexual inter- course in front of the TV while the news is on , Nefastis demonstrates that his machine is irrelevant to him since the prepackaged ...
... course , the best example of the failure of his machine . In expressing his preference for sexual inter- course in front of the TV while the news is on , Nefastis demonstrates that his machine is irrelevant to him since the prepackaged ...
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... course the implication ... It did tell me the truth about them . If Eden was the creation of God , God only knows what evil created Vheissu . The skin which had wrinkled through my nightmares was all there had ever been . Vheissu itself ...
... course the implication ... It did tell me the truth about them . If Eden was the creation of God , God only knows what evil created Vheissu . The skin which had wrinkled through my nightmares was all there had ever been . Vheissu itself ...
Contents
Baedeker Land | 65 |
Death Transfigured | 135 |
In Which Various Things Come Together | 187 |
Copyright | |
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