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And he tells her to drop it in the "W.A.S.T.E., lady," can.
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W.A.S.T.E. We're not allowed to say "waste," remember.
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And then she is gripped with-- as she says, "overcome all at once"--
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by a need to touch him, as if she could not believe in him
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or would not remember him.
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And she reflects, just above that, on the mattress
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that he must sleep in, and this is one of those great Pynchon sentences.
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This is a question, but it comes in the declarative form,too.
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what voices overheard
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flinders of luminescent gods glimpsed among the wallpaper's
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stained foliage, candle stubs lit to rotate in the
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air over him prefiguring the cigarette he or a friend must fall