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‘Shall I project a world?’ — ‘The Crying of Lot 49’ episode

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Real estate magnates, secret societies, alternative means of communicating, psychedelic drugs used as therapy? It’s not our world; it’s the world of Thomas Pynchon’s “The Crying of Lot 49.” Jason Dick, Sean Carswell and Alan Tuszynski discuss Silent Tristero’s Empire and whether we’re living in it.

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