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Many concepts which play a key role throughout the bulk of pynchons fiction can be found here in various stages of infancy. The crying of lot 49 by thomas pynchon chapter 1 youtube. Part of what pynchon writes in the crying of lot 49, in my opinion, presents random sex and infidelity as one answer attempted by people in oedipas shoes, the bored housewives and their working husband counterparts, and this purported solution comes up empty time and time again. He received the national book award for gravitys rainbow in 1.
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