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<div>Croix mystique, 16, 484<br />
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"operational paranoia" 25<br />
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"classic paranoiac" 32<br />
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"great swamp of paranoia" 33<br />
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Slothrop reading Villard's shit, 65<br />
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Earth's prime meridian, 72<br />
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Slothrop's stars and rocket hits coincide (4.5-day mean lag time), 85-86<br />
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"witch-paranoia" 95<br />
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"always someone behind him being careful" 114<br />
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"And who's that, through the crack in the orange shade, breathing carefully? Watching?" 120 (See also page 216: "[Sir Dodson-Truck's] 'function' is to observe [Slothrop]")<br />
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folk-consciousness, 130-31, "the day of the Normandy invasion [...] his temperature shot up to 104" 131<br />
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City Paranoiac, 171-72<br />
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"seeking other orders behind the visible" - Puritan reflex, 187<br />
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"a peculiar structure that no one admitted to" 193<br />
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"'Harvard's there for other reasons. The "educating" part of it is just sort of a front'" 193<br />
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raindrops as "giant asterisks" 204<br />
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"all in his life of what has looked free or random, is discovered to have been under some Control" 209<br />
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"Here it is again, that identical-looking Other World" 225<br />
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Proverbs for Paranoids, 237, 241, 251, 262, 292<br />
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Paranoid Systems of History, 238<br />
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monster in the sky, 241<br />
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Slothrop hears quotation marks, 241<br />
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night voices in Hotel Nimbus in Zürich, 255-56<br />
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"playing the patterns" 257<br />
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"ornamentally splendid splashes of paranoia" 276<br />
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Slothrop's suspicions of Maj. Marvy, 332<br />
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new higher-dimensional maps of the world, 321<br />
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"there is a pattern [...] the act of naming obeys the pattern" 322<br />
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"More Western paranoia" 340<br />
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England/China/ India, 346<br />
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I Ching, 378<br />
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crossing solipsisms, 395<br />
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"They're all in on it together" 400<br />
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"If there is something comforting—-religious, if you want—-about paranoia, there is still also anti-paranoia, where nothing is connected to anything, a condition not many of us can bear for long." 434<br />
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"the Listening Enemy [...] between him and the wet sky" 434<br />
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"Either They have put him here for a reason, or he's just here." 434<br />
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Säure's "ability to prophesy through contemplating the way people roll reefers" 442<br />
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Devil behind the mirror, 444<br />
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"Die Slothrop" 446<br />
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"each plot carries its signature" 464<br />
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Thanatz reads whipscars like Gypsy reads palms, 484<br />
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"'Paranoia,' Springer snaps reproachfully [...]. You wouldn't understand that.'" 500<br />
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"everything was so clear then, paranoia was all for the enemy, and never for one's own" 518<br />
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"Ölfabriken Werke AG is not really a ruin at all" 520<br />
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"what incalculable plot" 521<br />
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"on into some other paranoid terror" 522<br />
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"Do you have to see conspiracies in everything?" 528<br />
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critical mass of means of control being connected, 539<br />
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"Rocket-cartel" 566<br />
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"Radio-Control-Implanted-In-The-Head-At-Birth" 542<br />
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perfecting "methods of immobility" 572<br />
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the fate of "truthseekers" 582<br />
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"simulated randomness" 586<br />
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Masonic plots, 587<br />
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"Kute Korrespondences" 590<br />
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"Everything is some kind of plot, man." (Bodine), 603<br />
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"[Slothrop] watches flights of birds and patterns in the ashes of his fire, he reads the guts of trout he's caught and cleaned, scraps of lost paper, graffiti on the broken walls where facing has been shot away to reveal the brick underneath--broken in specific shapes that may also be read" 623<br />
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Slothrop "reading soup recipes and finding in every bone and cabbage leaf paraphrases of himself. [...] picking up rusted beer cans, rubbers yellow with preterite seed, Kleenex wadded to brain shapes hiding preterite snot, preterite tears, newspapers, broken glass, pieces of automobile, days when in superstition and fright he could make it all fit, seeing cleasrly in each an entry in a record" 625-26<br />
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"novice paranoid" 638<br />
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"creative paranoia" 638<br />
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Pensiero reading shivers, 641<br />
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Katje as "the allegorical figure of paranoia" 657<br />
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paranoia song, 657<br />
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"plexiglass maps of the webs we maintain across the Zone" 660<br />
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"Father-conspiracy" 679<br />
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"Paranoid for the Day" 691<br />
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Dark Dream, 697<br />
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"Everything is connected" 703<br />
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the man and the white albatross, 712-13<br />
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"their pet, or death" (Byron's dilemma), 713<br />
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"a route only apparently in ruins, carefully crafted by the War" 728<br />
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S&M, 737<br />
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I Ching, 746<br />
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