Tag: general semantics
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Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice: Feds, Heads, and Threads
The books of Thomas Pynchon are so chock-full of cool references, I had to make two collages for this blog entry. Pynchon is one of my favorite writers. I recently read his noir-hippie novel, Inherent Vice (The Penguin Press, New York, 2009). The term “inherent vice” is a legal term that refers to physical properties of…