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The Crying of Lot 49: Chapter 1

Mapping the Zone: A Thomas Pynchon discussion podcast

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Gravity's Rainbow

You can't tell at any point in this book like okay going back to that last paragraph you know it starts as as things developed she was to have all manner of revelations and that is explicitly not from her perspective but without any regard for anything else. It shifts to really more of an internal investigation from her perspective of herself while still having this third person description. I think that's definitely something that he does a lot more later especially in gravity's rainbow Especially the shifting excuse me in perspective of like there's so many parts in gravity's Rainbow that shift from third person into second person  you almost never notice it happening it just you kind of get a few sentences in and you're like holy

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