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by Gödel's Theorem

[...] yes well actually this goes on, verse after verse, for quite some time. In its complete version it represents a pretty fair renunciation of the things of the world. The trouble with it is that by Gödel's Theorem there is bound to be some item around that one has omitted from the list, and suc…

—p.325 Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
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colonies are the outhouses of the European soul inspo/funny

Just a big hunk of desert, no more maids, no field-hands, no laborers for the construction or the mining—wait, wait a minute there, yes it's Karl Marx, that sly old racist skipping away with his teeth together and his eyebrows up trying to make believe it's nothing but Cheap Labor and Overseas Mark…

—p.322 by Thomas Pynchon
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preterite

In preterite line they have pointed her here,

—p.320 by Thomas Pynchon
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trying to get them interested in their souls

In the mountains around Nordhausen and Bleicheröde, down in abandoned mine shafts, live the Schwarzkommando. These days it's no longer a military tide: they are a people now, Zone-Hereros, in exile for two generations from South-West Africa. Early Rhenish missionaries began to bring them back to th…

—p.319 by Thomas Pynchon
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the usual Bavarian approach to electronics

"I used to work here. I think Zwitter might still be around." There wasn't enough room in the Mittelwerke for many of the smaller assembly jobs. Control systems mainly. So they were put together in beerhalls, shops, schools, castles, farmhouses all around Nordhausen here, any indoor lab space the g…

—p.318 by Thomas Pynchon