The Grim Phoenix: Reconstructing Thomas Pynchon |
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Page 53
... explains , the Rocket was only a fiction for Slothrop " ... to help him deny what he could not possibly admit : that he might be in love , in sexual love , with his , and his race's , death .... a fascinating combination of crude poet ...
... explains , the Rocket was only a fiction for Slothrop " ... to help him deny what he could not possibly admit : that he might be in love , in sexual love , with his , and his race's , death .... a fascinating combination of crude poet ...
Page 74
... explains his reluctance to visit Malta : " But he stayed off Malta . He had pieces of thread : clues . Young Stencil has been in all her cities , chased her down till faulty memories or vanished buildings defeated him . All her cities ...
... explains his reluctance to visit Malta : " But he stayed off Malta . He had pieces of thread : clues . Young Stencil has been in all her cities , chased her down till faulty memories or vanished buildings defeated him . All her cities ...
Page 189
... explain . Again , it is a matter of interpretation , of designing a logical structure that will accommodate all the evidence . It is for this reason that paranoia may be the closest we can come to naming any theory that explains ...
... explain . Again , it is a matter of interpretation , of designing a logical structure that will accommodate all the evidence . It is for this reason that paranoia may be the closest we can come to naming any theory that explains ...
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