The Grim Phoenix: Reconstructing Thomas Pynchon |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 13
Page 1
... imagination of a theoretical physicist , Thomas Pynchon examines the philosophical world as if it were a closed system in which facts , rather than molecules , are distributed accord- ing to the laws of thermodynamics . The result is a ...
... imagination of a theoretical physicist , Thomas Pynchon examines the philosophical world as if it were a closed system in which facts , rather than molecules , are distributed accord- ing to the laws of thermodynamics . The result is a ...
Page 7
... imagination struggle against entropy , but he does not represent what his world has in common with the readers ' reality . Rather , he lets his readers infer their own world ; " what can be shown , cannot be said ” ( 51 ) , notes ...
... imagination struggle against entropy , but he does not represent what his world has in common with the readers ' reality . Rather , he lets his readers infer their own world ; " what can be shown , cannot be said ” ( 51 ) , notes ...
Page 104
... imagination of a generation of young engineers , in- cluding von Braun , and was instrumental in the formulation of rocket clubs - like the Society for Space Navigation — throughout Germany in the prewar years . Lang's fanciful rocket ...
... imagination of a generation of young engineers , in- cluding von Braun , and was instrumental in the formulation of rocket clubs - like the Society for Space Navigation — throughout Germany in the prewar years . Lang's fanciful rocket ...
Contents
Baedeker Land | 65 |
Death Transfigured | 135 |
In Which Various Things Come Together | 187 |
Copyright | |
2 other sections not shown
Common terms and phrases
Adams already appears Baedeker become begins Blicero called chaos characters closed system comes communication complex continuity course created Crying of Lot death discovers dream earth energy entropy Enzian existence experience explains facts familiar Fausto fiction finally force give Gravity's Rainbow human identity illusion imagination important increasing keep knowledge land landscape least leaves less limits lives look machine Malta meaning metaphor nature never noise noted novel object observation Oedipa organization paranoia past perception perhaps physics possible present Press Profane Pynchon Pynchon's fiction reader reality recognize reference represent Rocket role sense shape Slothrop space Stencil stories street structure suggests symbol tell theory things thinks tion tour tourist transfigured Tristero turn University Vheissu York Zone