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When Seph is trying to get into Trinity for the first time, he ends up waiting around near a farmhouse with wild roses:
They'd chosen a spot where the barrier cut across a field. A battered farmhouse crouched next to the road, its paint gone gray with weather. The foundation of the house was ove...
I read this book in the mid '90s, but it's likely older, from a couple of decades before that. It was in English, possible American English.
What I remember is a scene in which the protagonist takes part in illegal street races. Stacks of books are tied to the bumper of two cars. Drivers then rac...
(Verse 2)
Suddenly
I'm not half the man I used to be
There's a shadow hanging over me
Oh, yesterday came suddenly
Yesterday by The Beatles
What baffle me is the the line "Oh, yesterday came suddenly" it seems like a phrase without any sense, how can yesterday come? What came? The yesterday as a...
Two weeks before the murder Mr. Renauld changes his will in which his son does not get any money. However, the culprit kills Mr. Renauld even though in order to actually get this money they would also have to kill Mme Renauld. Did they have any plans to do it or were they simply unaware of that f...
Why is Gravity’s Rainbow considered postmodern, yet Finnegans Wake is not?
Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow (1973) has been received as a canonical instance of postmodernism.
See
Pynchon, postmodernism and quantification: an empirical content analysis of Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow
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