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...THEN AGAIN, perhaps not. For Pynchon is fondest, above all, of ambiguity. And just as more and more evidence grows to confirm the conspiracy theory, so too grows the likelihood that it is all just a paranoid's hallucination...
...Watergate. (Gemstone was the code word for these summaries.) Odle said that he did not know if this was a Gemstone file, but admitted that it probably contained "things which have no place in a political campaign." If it was a Watergate wiretap record, of course, that would further confirm that Jeb Magruder had had advance knowledge of the illegal operation. He has admitted lying to the grand jury in denying that he knew in advance about the Watergate bugging and helped to plan it, but he has also claimed that Mitchell asked him to perjure himself in the coverup...
...becomes very friendly with a pair of Tursiops truncatus, the bottle-nosed mammals that may be the closest animal to man in intelligence. The scientist manages to get Bi and Fa, the cetaceans in his charge, to talk English, but what they tell him, alas, would be enough to confirm Scott's worst fears about...
Sanders would not confirm that he had been offered the Harvard position last night, but admitted that he expected to be contacted by Harvard "either Monday or Tuesday." Up until his personal interview with Harvard officials on Friday, Sanders had not been considered the premier contender for the position. According to one source, "He impressed the committee with his poise, intelligence, and depth...
WHEN A MAN returns from a war, he is placed on a pedestal and bombarded with a deadly barrage of questions. "Were you wounded?" people want to know. "Did it hurt? Did you kill anyone?" He is asked to confirm the strange notions of war Americans are bred on: that is is horrible, that it is a nightmare, but that in the end it somehow makes a better...