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Published September 2006 in association with mute. 476 pages. ISBN: 0955066441

Kekulé dreams the Great Serpent holding its own tail in its mouth, the
dreaming Serpent which surrounds the World. But the meanness, the
cynicism with which this dream is to be used. The Serpent that
announces, "The World is a closed thing, cyclical, resonant,
eternally-returning," is to be delivered into a system whose only aim
is to violate the Cycle. Taking and not giving back, demanding that
and  keep on increasing with time, the System removing from the rest
of the World these vast quantities of energy to keep its own tiny
desperate fraction showing a profit: and not only most of humanity —
most of the World, animal, vegetable and mineral, is laid waste in the
process. The System may or may not understand that it's only buying
time. And that time is an artificial resource to begin with, of no
value to anyone or anything but the System, which sooner or later must
crash to its death, when its addiction to energy has become more than
the rest of the World can supply, dragging with it innocent souls all
along the chain of life.

Thomas Pynchon. Gravity's Rainbow.

With contributions from: Hal Abelson, Erich Berger, Shu Lea Cheang,
Florian Cramer, Yves Degoyon, Leif Elggren, Simon Ford, Olga
Goriunova, Paul Graham, Graham Harwood, Stewart Home, Martin Howse,
Jonathan Kemp, Friedrich Kittler, Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz,
Aymeric Mansoux, Bruno Marchal, Armin Medosch, Anthony Moore, Peter
Norvig, Jeff Prideaux, Thomas de Quincey, Otto Roessler,
socialfiction.org, Gerald J. Sussman, Julie Sussman, Oswald Wiener

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