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Page 97
... Pynchon seems to have indulged in a great deal of freewheeling improvisation in the early part of his novel , especially in the scenes dealing with Benny Profane , an amiable layabout looking for work in New York , and his friends , who ...
... Pynchon seems to have indulged in a great deal of freewheeling improvisation in the early part of his novel , especially in the scenes dealing with Benny Profane , an amiable layabout looking for work in New York , and his friends , who ...
Page 98
... Pynchon ( and the large amount of research that must have been put into them ) . Where I find V. most interesting ... Pynchon's fascina- tion with the symbiosis of the mechanical and the organic ; it is evident even in the figurative ...
... Pynchon ( and the large amount of research that must have been put into them ) . Where I find V. most interesting ... Pynchon's fascina- tion with the symbiosis of the mechanical and the organic ; it is evident even in the figurative ...
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... Pynchon is interested in exploding the traditional ' well - made ' novel , by taking its conventions to the pitch of impossible elabora- tion . V. , and still more The Crying of Lot 49 , might be described as extended puns on the ...
... Pynchon is interested in exploding the traditional ' well - made ' novel , by taking its conventions to the pitch of impossible elabora- tion . V. , and still more The Crying of Lot 49 , might be described as extended puns on the ...
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Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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