"But angels were watching": The City as Organ of (Divine?) Revelation in The Crying of Lot 49
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Literature and Religion Abstract:
This paper examines how the heroine of Pynchon’s novel experiences “a revelation … just past the threshold of … understanding,” which is occasioned by two phenomena—the (apparently) undirected organization of the city and the untamable language used to describe it.
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