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... lives a night , and they're your lives too " ( 107 ) . After seven years of silence , Pynchon offers still another , more complex , version of the self's closed system . The central characters in Gravity's Rainbow are forces like ...
... lives a night , and they're your lives too " ( 107 ) . After seven years of silence , Pynchon offers still another , more complex , version of the self's closed system . The central characters in Gravity's Rainbow are forces like ...
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... live lives that are waveforms constantly changing with time , now positive , now negative . Only at moments of great serenity is it possible to find the pure , the informationless state of signal zero . ( 404 ) With the scientist's ...
... live lives that are waveforms constantly changing with time , now positive , now negative . Only at moments of great serenity is it possible to find the pure , the informationless state of signal zero . ( 404 ) With the scientist's ...
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... lives and histories of others and who lives by the maxim , " History is not woven by inno- cent hands " ( 277 ) , is undone in his master plan for controlling Ty- rone Slothrop by an accident , by Major Marvy's being mistaken for ...
... lives and histories of others and who lives by the maxim , " History is not woven by inno- cent hands " ( 277 ) , is undone in his master plan for controlling Ty- rone Slothrop by an accident , by Major Marvy's being mistaken for ...
Contents
Baedeker Land | 65 |
Death Transfigured | 135 |
In Which Various Things Come Together | 187 |
Copyright | |
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