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Against what looms in the twilight of the european future, it doesnt make much sense, this pretending to carry on with the day, you know, just waiting. A new york times notable book of the year, a washington post best book of the year spanning the era between the chicago worlds fair of 1893 and the years just after world war i, and constantly moving between locations across the globe and to a few places not strictly speaking on the map at all, against the day unfolds with a phantasmagoria of characters that includes anarchists, balloonists. Thomas pynchon s many fans love him the way teenagers love pop idols. The main characters of this fiction, literature story are pig bodine.
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