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• Liebig himself seems to have occupied the role of a gate, or sorting-demon, such as his younger contemporary Clerk Maxwell once proposed, helping to concentrate energy into one favored room of the Creation at the expense of everything else.

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  Clerks, Energy, Roles

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• Our history is an aggregate of last moments

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  Arriving, Lasts, Moments

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Gravity's Rainbow”, p.118, Penguin

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• She thougt of sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west.

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  Sunrise, Library, West

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “The Crying of Lot 49”, p.4, Penguin

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• Everybody who says the same words is the same person if the spectra are the same only they happen differently in time, you dig? But the time is arbitrary. You pick your zero point anywhere you want, that way you can shuffle each person's time line sideways till they all coincide.

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  Zero, Arbitrary, Lines

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “The Crying of Lot 49”, p.67, Penguin

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• A number of frail girls... prisoners in the top room of a circular tower, embroidering a kind of tapestry which spilled out the slit windows and into a void, seeking hopelessly to fill the void: for all the other buildings and creatures, all the waves, ships and forests of the earth were contained in this tapestry, and the tapestry was the world.

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  Girl, Numbers, Towers

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “The Crying of Lot 49”, p.9, Penguin

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• If the world offered nothing, nowhere to support or make bearable whatever her private grief was, then it is that world, and not she, that is at fault.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Grief, Support, Faults

  Letter to Jules Siegel, Cavalier magazine, August 1965.

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