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... remain , memories that " have grown into consistent personae of their own " ( 742 ) . There is rumor of Slothrop's joining an English rock group or returning home for the occupation of Mingeborough , but these no longer matter . Even ...
... remain , memories that " have grown into consistent personae of their own " ( 742 ) . There is rumor of Slothrop's joining an English rock group or returning home for the occupation of Mingeborough , but these no longer matter . Even ...
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... remain secondary to the essence of tourism : perception of forms , or " sight seeing , " a term first used as late as 1847. Travel had been irreversibly changed by the two expectations of familiarity and strangeness . The world Pynchon ...
... remain secondary to the essence of tourism : perception of forms , or " sight seeing , " a term first used as late as 1847. Travel had been irreversibly changed by the two expectations of familiarity and strangeness . The world Pynchon ...
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... remain . . . " ( 616 ) . In a bureaucracy , it is the office , not the person , that continues , and offices do not know death . Despite his official role , the Devil's Advocate sounds the theme for the counter- force : " But rather ...
... remain . . . " ( 616 ) . In a bureaucracy , it is the office , not the person , that continues , and offices do not know death . Despite his official role , the Devil's Advocate sounds the theme for the counter- force : " But rather ...
Contents
Baedeker Land | 65 |
Death Transfigured | 135 |
In Which Various Things Come Together | 187 |
Copyright | |
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