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| | LRB Michael Wood : Post-Paranoid |
 | | Russia had the bomb, but America had the famous bombers, and an artist formerly known for her work with junk is now, in 1992, spray-painting some 230 disused B-52s, a sort of ready-made sculpture in the desert, and another sign that an age is over. |
 | | The novels are full of concrete details, data, brand names, place names, slang, objects, furniture, roads and cars, and the characters talk as if they are supposed to be imitations of people who could be met outside fiction. |
 | | But where Pynchon's novel is a long, looping farewell to the idea of conspiracy, almost to the idea of narrative, DeLillo's explores conspiracy's legacy or, more precisely, a world bereft of conspiracy, in mourning for the scary, constricting sense the old secrets used to make. |
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