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• "You are so close." "To whom? Margravine, not even to himself. This place, this island: all his life he's done nothing but hop from island to island. Is that a reason? Does there have to be a reason? Shall he tell you: he works for no Whitehall, non conceivable unless, ha, ha, the network of white halls in his own brain: these featureless corridors he keeps swept and correct for occasional visiting agents."

  Thomas Pynchon

  Islands, White, Brain

  "V". Book by Thomas Pynchon, 1961.

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• He was visited on a lunar basis by these great unspecific waves of horniness, whereby all women within a certain age group and figure envelope became immediately and impossibly desirable. He emerged from these spells with eyeballs still oscillating and a wish that his neck could rotate through the full 360 degrees.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Wish, Age, Groups

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “V.”, p.22, Penguin

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• They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Sleep, Plot

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Gravity's Rainbow”, p.66, Penguin

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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.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Clerks, Energy, Roles

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• [Oedipa Maas] awoke at last to find herself getting laid.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Maa, Lasts, Getting Laid

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• Like so many named places in California it was less an identifiable city than a grouping of concepts--census tracts, special purpose bond-issue districts, shopping nuclei, all overlaid with access roads to its own freeway.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Cities, Shopping, California

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “The Crying of Lot 49”, p.10, Penguin

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