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first prize in a Hitler Youth pet show

[...] The only control in the picture right now is the damned lemming. If she exists. The kid shows Slothrop photos he's packing in his wallet: Ursula, eyes bright and shy, peeking out from under a pile of cabbage leaves . . . Ursula in a cage decked with a giant ribbon and swastika'd seal, first p…

—p.566 Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
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the SS, picking potatoes

[...] they've been chasing these nonexistent potato fields now for a month—"Plundered," a one-time bugler limps along with a long splinter of railroad tie for a cane, his instrument, implausibly undented and shiny, swinging from one shoulder, "stripped by the SS, Bruder, ja, every fucking potato fi…

—p.559 by Thomas Pynchon
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go ahead, capitalize the T on technology

Yes but Technology only responds (how often this argument has been iterated, dogged and humorless as a Gaussian reduction, among the younger Schwarzkommando especially), "All very well to talk about having a monster by the tail, but do you think we'd've had the Rocket if someone, some specific some…

—p.530 by Thomas Pynchon
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being chased forward and aft

One of the chimps now bites a Soviet corporal in the leg. The corporal screams, unslinging his Tokarev and firing from the hip, by which time the chimp has leaped for a halyard. A dozen more of the critters, many carrying vodka bottles, head en masse for the gangplank. "Don't let them get away," Ha…

—p.512 by Thomas Pynchon
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oneiric

That oneiric season

—p.483 by Thomas Pynchon
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