Tuesday, April 6, 2021

Chapter 1: Section 5: Page 38: Line 68 (650)

 But she had hailed a hansom-cab, and climbed in without looking back, and was quickly borne away.

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Good riddance! Who needs Troth anyway?! We're in a Thomas Pynchon novel which takes place in obsessively accurate backdrops of specific times and places but fills all these scenes of exacting detail with whimsical and far-fetched characters with fairly stupid names. Hey Truth! Don't let the hansom-cab's door hit you on your already sore backside on the way out of Chicago! Jerko!

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