IVIV barbed wire p 24 a.k.a. "the Devil's Rope"

[David Payne]

On Tue, 1 Sep 2009 (10:48:39 -0700), Doug Millison (DOUGMILLISON at comcast.net) wrote:

> Wishing for a full-text search tool.

Great post, Doug! I hope this helps: http://tinyurl.com/lgjlyd
 
This is far from perfect, and completely inadequate for any serious research:
 
* May not work outside of the US
* Doesn't seem to includes results from VL, SL, or IV? (odd as VL and SL are searchable on Amazon)
* Seems to randomly miss some results--see the weirdness (which I copied below) involving the V results (one edition of which is classified as "medical")
* Thinks that Pynchon wrote 1984
 
Anyhow, here's the barb wire results it captured:
 
Gravity's rainbow‎ - Page 91
by Thomas Pynchon - Fiction - 1995 - 760 pages
Halfway between the water and the coarse sea-grass, a long stretch of pipe and barbed wire rings in the wind. The black latticework is propped up by longer ...

1984‎ - Page 5
by George Orwell, Thomas Pynchon, Erich Fromm - Fiction - 2003 - 339 pages
It was a place impossible to enter except on official business, and then only by penetrating through a maze of barbed-wire entanglements, steel doors, ...

The crying of lot 49‎ - Page 15
by Thomas Pynchon - Fiction - 1999 - 152 pages
To her left appeared a prolonged scatter of wide, pink buildings, surrounded by miles of fence topped with barbed wire and interrupted now and then by guard ...

V.‎ - Page 288
by Thomas Pynchon - Fiction - 1999 - 533 pages
He waited alone in his house near the barbed-wire compound, listening to the drunks selecting their mates for the night. He couldn't stay off his feet and ...

V., a novel‎ - Page 269
by Thomas Pynchon - Medical - 1963 - 492 pages
Subalterns, enlisted men and gangers like himself shared them out of a common pool, housed in a barbed-wire compound near the BOQ It was problematical who ...

Against the day‎ - Page 625
by Thomas Pynchon - Fiction - 2006 - 1085 pages
"Until one day one is left with only traces in the world, a few tangles of 
barbed wire defining the plan-view of something no longer quite able to be seen ...

 
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