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leading real, paracinematíc lives

Buenos Aires, on through Spottbilligfilm AG in Berlin (another IG outlet) from whom von Göll used to get cut rates on most of his film stock, especially on the peculiar and slow-moving "Emulsion J," invented by Laszlo Jamf, which somehow was able, even under ordinary daylight, to render the human s…

—p.393 Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
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scrim

But he gets so desperate with them, moving behind their scrims of European pain

—p.365 by Thomas Pynchon
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this alphabet is really something

And print just goes marching on without him. Copy boys go running down the rows of desks trailing smeared galleys in the air. Native printers get crash courses from experts airlifted in from Tiflis on how to set up that NTA. Printed posters go up in the cities, in Samarkand and Pishpek, Verney and …

—p.361 by Thomas Pynchon
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the slowly carbonizing faces of men

[...] on the last day of his life, with Japanese iron whistling down on him from ships that are too far off in the haze for him even to see, he will think of the slowly carbonizing faces of men he thought he knew, men turning to coal, ancient coal that glistened, each crystal, in the hoarse sputter…

—p.356 by Thomas Pynchon
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the slowly carbonizing faces of men

[...] on the last day of his life, with Japanese iron whistling down on him from ships that are too far off in the haze for him even to see, he will think of the slowly carbonizing faces of men he thought he knew, men turning to coal, ancient coal that glistened, each crystal, in the hoarse sputter…

—p.356 by Thomas Pynchon