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jalousies

skipping across the edges of other sounds to attempt escape through the jalousies of the Venetian blinds

—p.295 PART II (279) by William Gaddis
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penumbra

in that penumbra of Science called chemistry

—p.293 PART II (279) by William Gaddis
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the Self which had ceased to exist

He turned the radio on, and adjusted his hearing, so that he heard only a comforting confusion of sound. An electric reading lamp, capable at a turn of a finger of three degrees of intensity, stood (just out of reach) beside a large chair. Behind was a veneered secretary of anonymous century and un…

—p.287 PART II (279) by William Gaddis
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filling a need they had manufactured themselves

The small apartment was as inoffensive as himself. Like the defiantly patternless botch of colors he wore upon his necktie, signal of his individuality to the neckties that he met screaming the same claim of independence from the innominate morass of their wearers, the apartment’s claims to distinc…

—p.285 PART II (279) by William Gaddis
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the fragment of sky which the buildings permitted

Consequently there was no reason for him to stand idly in the wet, looking about and questioning the sky, when he came out of that office building. Little good would it have done him had he bothered. Tons of concrete and other opaque building materials stood between him and that impudent portion of…

—p.282 PART II (279) by William Gaddis