The Grim Phoenix: Reconstructing Thomas Pynchon |
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... darkness swept in . The last image was too immediate for any eye to register . ( 760 ) Each section of the novel is populated with movie stars ( remember the Kenosha Kid ? ) and countless ... dark machine in the centre 18 THE GRIM PHOENIX.
... darkness swept in . The last image was too immediate for any eye to register . ( 760 ) Each section of the novel is populated with movie stars ( remember the Kenosha Kid ? ) and countless ... dark machine in the centre 18 THE GRIM PHOENIX.
Page 77
... dark — the occasional dark - would see . It is a univer- sal sin among the false - animate or unimaginative to refuse to let well enough alone . Their compulsion to gather together , their pathological fear of loneliness extends on past ...
... dark — the occasional dark - would see . It is a univer- sal sin among the false - animate or unimaginative to refuse to let well enough alone . Their compulsion to gather together , their pathological fear of loneliness extends on past ...
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... dark- ness , all sets of opposites brought together , including black and white , male and female ... " ( 100 ) . It ... darkness , held against the entropies of lovable but scatterbrained Mother Nature " ( 324 ) . It is the modern myth ...
... dark- ness , all sets of opposites brought together , including black and white , male and female ... " ( 100 ) . It ... darkness , held against the entropies of lovable but scatterbrained Mother Nature " ( 324 ) . It is the modern myth ...
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