"From dust we have come, to dust we shall return. In no way would this diminish all those very important human dimensions to the experience of death.

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Pynchon wants to imagine a very physical repository for the social, and especially for the human, affective dimensions of the social.

一种情感上的社会维度，这就是为什么Oedipa身边的男生。

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