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<p></p> <table style="background-color: white; color:black;"> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr valign='top'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">Revision as of 03:16, 3 September 2010</td> </tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 8:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 8:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>psychology, the field with which the scientist must deal is the "life space" of the individual. [p.xi, Foreword, ''Field Theory of Social Science'', Kurt Lewin, Harper Torchbooks, 1951.]<br></div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>psychology, the field with which the scientist must deal is the "life space" of the individual. [p.xi, Foreword, ''Field Theory of Social Science'', Kurt Lewin, Harper Torchbooks, 1951.]<br></div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>dt will resonate with all readers of ''Gravity's Rainbow'', of course.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>dt will resonate with all readers of ''Gravity's Rainbow'', of course.</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"><div id="radiation">377/418 - '''Hiroshima'''</div></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Hiroshima is the largest island on the Honshu island of Japan. It was the first city to be hit with a nuclear weapon. This occurred on August 6, 1945 at 8:15 am. The character Hiroshima tells Pig about radiation.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><div id="venusberg">379/420 - '''the Venusbergs'''</div></div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><div id="venusberg">379/420 - '''the Venusbergs'''</div></div></td></tr>  </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: white; color:black;"> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr valign='top'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">Revision as of 02:14, 2 September 2010</td> </tr> <tr><td colspan='4' align='center' class='diff-multi'>(One intermediate revision not shown)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>{{V PbP Top}}</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>{{V PbP Top}}</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">44/39 - '''X''' <br/></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"...the Xs of the grating in the middle of the mall." An X is formed by sticking two Vs together (one upside down).</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><div id="random movements">55/51 - '''His random movements'''</div></div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><div id="random movements">55/51 - '''His random movements'''</div></div></td></tr>  </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: white; color:black;"> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr valign='top'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">Revision as of 02:08, 2 September 2010</td> </tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 309:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 309:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>37/32 - '''horniness'''<br></div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>37/32 - '''horniness'''<br></div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>a state of sexual excitement. Pynchon is the first citation in the ''Oxford English Dictionary'' for use of this word in print, in ''V.''.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>a state of sexual excitement. Pynchon is the first citation in the ''Oxford English Dictionary'' for use of this word in print, in ''V.''.</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">39/34 - '''screw where his navel should have been...'''<br /></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The navel is where the umbilical cord attaches. When the boy unscrews it, his body falls apart. This is a repeated reference that bodily traits are passed on through genetics and the umbilical cord attaches you to a parent. If you try to undo it, you will undo yourself.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>43/39 - '''now [the alligators] moved big, blind albino, all over the sewer system...'''<br /></div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>43/39 - '''now [the alligators] moved big, blind albino, all over the sewer system...'''<br /></div></td></tr>  </table>

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