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Page 66
... physical structures , but as " rational formulas , " showing the relationships that went on in " metamorphoses , " his quaint 19th - century way of saying " chemical reactions . " But he could visualize . He saw the four bonds of carbon ...
... physical structures , but as " rational formulas , " showing the relationships that went on in " metamorphoses , " his quaint 19th - century way of saying " chemical reactions . " But he could visualize . He saw the four bonds of carbon ...
Page 70
... physical fact of their location , some under- stand that perception rather than the place is the source of alienation . This latter condition of tourism offers Pynchon a model for the way in which his characters can discover their world ...
... physical fact of their location , some under- stand that perception rather than the place is the source of alienation . This latter condition of tourism offers Pynchon a model for the way in which his characters can discover their world ...
Page 216
... physical things They have taken , from Earth and from us , can be dismantled , demol- ished - returned to where it all came from " ( 540 ) . The counterforce is augmented by Roger Mexico when he realizes that not only has he been used ...
... physical things They have taken , from Earth and from us , can be dismantled , demol- ished - returned to where it all came from " ( 540 ) . The counterforce is augmented by Roger Mexico when he realizes that not only has he been used ...
Contents
Baedeker Land | 65 |
Death Transfigured | 135 |
In Which Various Things Come Together | 187 |
Copyright | |
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