The Grim Phoenix: Reconstructing Thomas Pynchon |
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... limits of language ( of that language which alone I understand ) mean the limits of my world . The world and life are one . I am my world . ( The microcosm ) ” ( 115–17 ) . Pynchon presses at the edge of the knowable world with his lan ...
... limits of language ( of that language which alone I understand ) mean the limits of my world . The world and life are one . I am my world . ( The microcosm ) ” ( 115–17 ) . Pynchon presses at the edge of the knowable world with his lan ...
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... limit of the world - not a part of it " ( 119 ) offers Pynchon a useful image for describing the writer's role in ... limits of Pynchon's world and a system within which facts rather than molecules are distributed . If we imagine the ...
... limit of the world - not a part of it " ( 119 ) offers Pynchon a useful image for describing the writer's role in ... limits of Pynchon's world and a system within which facts rather than molecules are distributed . If we imagine the ...
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... limits of his world are determined by the length of the string that binds Profane to his own self : " If you look from the side at a planet swinging around in its orbit , split the sun with a mirror and imagine a string , it all looks ...
... limits of his world are determined by the length of the string that binds Profane to his own self : " If you look from the side at a planet swinging around in its orbit , split the sun with a mirror and imagine a string , it all looks ...
Contents
Baedeker Land | 65 |
Death Transfigured | 135 |
In Which Various Things Come Together | 187 |
Copyright | |
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