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the covalent bond inspo/characterisation

In the last third of his life, there came over Laszlo Jamf—so it seemed to those who from out in the wood lecture halls watched his eyelids slowly granulate, spots and wrinkles grow across his image, disintegrating it toward old age—a hostility, a strangely personal hatred, for the covalent bond.…

—p.587 Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
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preterite

without preterite

—p.566 by Thomas Pynchon
notable
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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 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