Friday, March 5, 2010

Crying lot of 49

1.) The problem of dealing with the past while believing in the present

2.)Thus, Pynchon shows us a way in which language itself, in the form of puns, can be used as a means of providing false clues related to the novel's central concerns.

3.)My biggest mistake was love. From this day I swear to stay off love: hetero, homo, bi, dog or cat, car, every kind there is. I will found a society of isolates, dedicated to this purpose, this sign, revealed by the same gasoline that almost destroyed me, will be its emblem.

4.) .., anarchist also believe in another world. Where revolutions break out spontaneous and leaderless, and the souls talent for consensus allows the masses to work together without effort, automatic as body itself.

5.)But is was a systematic withdrawal from the life of the republic, its machinery. Whatever was being denied to them out of hate, indifference to their power of vote, loopholes, simple ignorance, this withdrawal was their own, private, unpublicized one.Since they could not have withdrawn into a vacuum (could they) there had to exist the separate, silent, unsuspected world.

6.)He hardly breathed but tears come as if being pumped.

7.) The novel suggests that the human mind has an extraordinary ability to create situations that seem so real as to be indistinguishable from truly external events.

8.) It can be argued, then, that from a structural standpoint, each additional piece of information only expands the amount of unknown; in other words, the more we know, the more we know how much we do not know.

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