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The Crying of Lot 49: Chapter 2

Mapping the Zone: A Thomas Pynchon discussion podcast

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The Rise of Computing Power

Pierce being referred to as a founding father could definitely you know refer to a military industrial complex type of situation. I think it also just refers to his grip over this entire area of the country especially going through later in the chapter and finding out like he owns that Pierce started, which they kind of imply with Metskers. He's kind of responsible for the development of this area and what it's becoming yeah point in that same sense of AmericaTo go back to the the gravity rainbow thing I did find the interesting that there's a few different things but the part where the hairspray bottle is curomming around the bathroom it doesI think it specifies that that that its flight is basically

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