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Page 22
... increasingly becomes an object , a mechanized Virgin- Venus : " Victoria was being gradually replaced by V .; something ... increasing disorder and tendency toward an inanimate stasis , at the same time she is herself literally a closed ...
... increasingly becomes an object , a mechanized Virgin- Venus : " Victoria was being gradually replaced by V .; something ... increasing disorder and tendency toward an inanimate stasis , at the same time she is herself literally a closed ...
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... increasing the world's disorder and decadence ; in subsequent novels , the model is perfected and enlarged . Yet V.'s own disintegration and disassembly are the result of an accident , the unfortunate fall of a beam during a bombing ...
... increasing the world's disorder and decadence ; in subsequent novels , the model is perfected and enlarged . Yet V.'s own disintegration and disassembly are the result of an accident , the unfortunate fall of a beam during a bombing ...
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... increasing number of references , the system remains essentially con- stant ; the direction of time is always related to entropy , and history is always an attempt to impose order on time . The relationship of entropy to time ...
... increasing number of references , the system remains essentially con- stant ; the direction of time is always related to entropy , and history is always an attempt to impose order on time . The relationship of entropy to time ...
Contents
Baedeker Land | 65 |
Death Transfigured | 135 |
In Which Various Things Come Together | 187 |
Copyright | |
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