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... experience , the experience . Haven't you learned ? " Profane didn't have to think long . " No , " he said , " offhand I'd say I haven't learned a goddamn thing . " ( 428 ) In the street , experiences are always the same ; they are just ...
... experience , the experience . Haven't you learned ? " Profane didn't have to think long . " No , " he said , " offhand I'd say I haven't learned a goddamn thing . " ( 428 ) In the street , experiences are always the same ; they are just ...
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... experienced . However , life produces objects , institutions , theories , and beliefs that have form and can be known . Once created , these forms exist as independent entities , can be experienced , and even shape experience for others ...
... experienced . However , life produces objects , institutions , theories , and beliefs that have form and can be known . Once created , these forms exist as independent entities , can be experienced , and even shape experience for others ...
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... experience . Using such fine points of intersection with his reader's memory and experience , Pynchon is able to build an extremely com- plex and comprehensive sense of the place and times from minutia . It is the details , the ...
... experience . Using such fine points of intersection with his reader's memory and experience , Pynchon is able to build an extremely com- plex and comprehensive sense of the place and times from minutia . It is the details , the ...
Contents
Baedeker Land | 65 |
Death Transfigured | 135 |
In Which Various Things Come Together | 187 |
Copyright | |
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