The Crying of Lot 49
Metadata
- Author: Thomas Pynchon
- ASIN: B005CRQ2Y4
- ISBN: 0061849928
- Reference: https://amazon.co.uk/dp/B005CRQ2Y4
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Highlights
the fraudulent dream of teenage appetites—be — location: 104
“We still need a hundred-and-fourth for the bridge.” — location: 124
Silly
Like 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. — location: 187
Though she knew even less about radios than about Southern Californians, there were to both outward patterns a hieroglyphic sense of concealed meaning, of an intent to communicate. — location: 194
It is at about this point in the play, in fact, that things really get peculiar, and a gentle chill, an ambiguity, begins to creep in among the words. Heretofore the naming of names has gone on either literally or as metaphor. But now, as the Duke gives his fatal command, a new mode of expression takes over. It can only be called a kind of ritual reluctance. Certain things, it is made clear, will not be spoken aloud; certain events will not be shown onstage; though it is difficult to imagine, given the excesses of the preceding acts, what these things could possibly be. — location: 748
as if they were in exile from somewhere else invisible yet congruent with the cheered land she lived in; and — location: 2009
The waiting above all; if not for another set of possibilities to replace those that had conditioned the land to accept any San Narciso among its most tender flesh without a reflex or a cry, — location: 2018
For it was now like walking among matrices of a great digital computer, the zeroes and ones twinned above, hanging like balanced mobiles right and left, ahead, thick, maybe endless. — location: 2021