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Page 107
... existence of two very different cultures : one white and one black " ( 35 ) . Pynchon takes the distinction beyond color : " While the white culture is concerned with various forms of systematized folly the black culture is stuck pretty ...
... existence of two very different cultures : one white and one black " ( 35 ) . Pynchon takes the distinction beyond color : " While the white culture is concerned with various forms of systematized folly the black culture is stuck pretty ...
Page 195
... existence . If Pynchon's second novel represents an experimental perfection of the form , it is the function of Gravity's Rainbow to permit the form its own existence , to see what happens when paranoia is not limited by the ...
... existence . If Pynchon's second novel represents an experimental perfection of the form , it is the function of Gravity's Rainbow to permit the form its own existence , to see what happens when paranoia is not limited by the ...
Page 226
... existence in the comfort of his search as proof against the forces of chaos that V. represents for him . He reduces all communication to the predictable , to what he knows in advance . When , on Malta , he is surprised by unexpected ...
... existence in the comfort of his search as proof against the forces of chaos that V. represents for him . He reduces all communication to the predictable , to what he knows in advance . When , on Malta , he is surprised by unexpected ...
Contents
Baedeker Land | 65 |
Death Transfigured | 135 |
In Which Various Things Come Together | 187 |
Copyright | |
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