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... mind ... V. Thus far the most common element of Pynchon criticism is apology , or at least an acknowledgment of its propriety . Far from affected pedantry , this self- consciousness is a demand made on critics by the very nature of ...
... mind ... V. Thus far the most common element of Pynchon criticism is apology , or at least an acknowledgment of its propriety . Far from affected pedantry , this self- consciousness is a demand made on critics by the very nature of ...
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... mind wakes to find itself looking blankly into the void of death . " Adams's view authenticates the application of entropy to time : Satisfied , the future generation could scarcely think itself , for even when the mind existed in a ...
... mind wakes to find itself looking blankly into the void of death . " Adams's view authenticates the application of entropy to time : Satisfied , the future generation could scarcely think itself , for even when the mind existed in a ...
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... mind as well , according to whom everything outside logic is accident . Proposition 2.0121 in part says , " It would ... minds of those who happened to be in on it at any specific moment . Since these several minds tended to form a sum ...
... mind as well , according to whom everything outside logic is accident . Proposition 2.0121 in part says , " It would ... minds of those who happened to be in on it at any specific moment . Since these several minds tended to form a sum ...
Contents
Baedeker Land | 65 |
Death Transfigured | 135 |
In Which Various Things Come Together | 187 |
Copyright | |
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