Word: besottedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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War abroad did not make us any more peaceful at home. A man in New York City was acquitted after he cut up his girlfriend for throwing him out of her apartment and served her stewed finger to the homeless in Tompkins Square Park. The jury decided he must have...
Does any of this matter? As far as Pynchon's books are concerned, no. Yet in this celebrity-besotted era, the spectacle of someone avoiding exposure is naturally intriguing. And Pynchon's fiction, with its emphasis on suspected conspiracies and coded significances, makes him seem a dandy candidate for a...