The Grim Phoenix: Reconstructing Thomas Pynchon |
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... represent the whole of reality , but they cannot represent what they must have in common with reality in order to be able to represent it - logical form . In order to be able to represent logical form , we should have to be able to ...
... represent the whole of reality , but they cannot represent what they must have in common with reality in order to be able to represent it - logical form . In order to be able to represent logical form , we should have to be able to ...
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... represent chaos ? Ac- cording to Wittgenstein's Tractatus , sentences are pictures of reality , and as pictures they must have the same form as the reality they represent . The apparent contradiction is perhaps resolved by Adams , who ...
... represent chaos ? Ac- cording to Wittgenstein's Tractatus , sentences are pictures of reality , and as pictures they must have the same form as the reality they represent . The apparent contradiction is perhaps resolved by Adams , who ...
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... represented the world , he too would have to be stationed outside it . But Pynchon does not represent ; he creates a world and thereby poses the problem of observation for the reader , who , like Oedipa , must wonder about the central ...
... represented the world , he too would have to be stationed outside it . But Pynchon does not represent ; he creates a world and thereby poses the problem of observation for the reader , who , like Oedipa , must wonder about the central ...
Contents
Baedeker Land | 65 |
Death Transfigured | 135 |
In Which Various Things Come Together | 187 |
Copyright | |
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Adams's Baedeker Land become Blicero Callisto chaos characters closed system clues communication complex counterforce created Crying of Lot death transfigured demon discovers dream duality earth energy entropy Enzian existence facts fantasy Fausto film force Göll Gottfried Gravity's Rainbow Henry Adams Herbert Stencil Hereros human identity imagination inanimate information theory Inverarity Inverarity's isolated Karl Baedeker Katje Kekulé's landscape lives Malta Maxwell's demon meta-cartel metaphor Mondaugen movie narrator Nefastis's machine never noise observation Oedipa Maas Oneirine Paola paranoia past perception Pig Bodine plot Pointsman Pökler possible preterite Profane Puritan Pynchon's fiction Pynchon's novels quest Rathenau reader recognize Rocket role San Narciso sense signal zero Slothrop Stencil stories street structure symbol Tchitcherine theme things Thomas Pynchon tion tour tourist transformation Tristero Tyrone Slothrop uncertainty Valletta Vheissu Walter Rathenau Watts Weissmann Wittgenstein's words York zero Zone