All 4 Uses of
relevant
in
The Crying of Lot 49
- She moved through it carrying her fat book, attracted, unsure, a stranger, wanting to feel relevant but knowing how much of a search among alternate universes it would take.†
Chpt 5
- Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.†
Chpt 5 *
- The saint whose water can light lamps, the clairvoyant whose lapse in recall is the breath of God, the true paranoid for whom all is organized in spheres joyful or threatening about the central pulse of himself, the dreamer whose puns probe ancient fetid shafts and tunnels of truth all act in the same special relevance to the word, or whatever it is the word is there, buffering, to protect us from.†
Chpt 5
- For there either was some Tristero beyond the appearance of the legacy America, or there was just America and if there was just America then it seemed the only way she could continue, and manage to be at all relevant to it, was as an alien, unfurrowed, assumed full circle into some paranoia.†
Chpt 6
Definition:
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(relevant) relating in a meaningful way to the issue in question