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Page 30
... sense of history and time prevail- ing against chaos . Very well ! Let a few of them melt . Let the clock tell false time for a while . But the weights will be reforged , and rehung , and if there doesn't happen to be one there in the ...
... sense of history and time prevail- ing against chaos . Very well ! Let a few of them melt . Let the clock tell false time for a while . But the weights will be reforged , and rehung , and if there doesn't happen to be one there in the ...
Page 97
... sense , Gravity's Rainbow is a movie , or rather the imitation of a movie . The remainder of Slothrop's trip is fragmentary : he tries to com- municate with Squalidozzi on a half - wave antenna and listens " for news of unauthorized ...
... sense , Gravity's Rainbow is a movie , or rather the imitation of a movie . The remainder of Slothrop's trip is fragmentary : he tries to com- municate with Squalidozzi on a half - wave antenna and listens " for news of unauthorized ...
Page 129
... sense of duality that the characters experience . Through his use of facts and details carried over from the reader's own experience , Pynchon creates a sense of place and event that self - consciously calls attention to the coexistence ...
... sense of duality that the characters experience . Through his use of facts and details carried over from the reader's own experience , Pynchon creates a sense of place and event that self - consciously calls attention to the coexistence ...
Contents
Baedeker Land | 65 |
Death Transfigured | 135 |
In Which Various Things Come Together | 187 |
Copyright | |
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