All 8 Uses
revelation
in
The Crying of Lot 49
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- As things developed, she was to have all manner of revelations.†
Chpt 1 *
- a revelation also trembled just past the threshold of her understanding.
Chpt 2revelation = something previously unknown; or making such a thing known
- As if (as she'd guessed that first minute in San Nar-ciso) there were revelation in progress all around her.
Chpt 3
- Much of the revelation was to come through the stamp collection Pierce had left, his substitute often for her— thousands of little colored windows into deep vistas of space and time: savannahs teeming with elands and gazelles, galleons sailing west into the void, Hitler heads, sunsets, cedars of Lebanon, allegorical faces that never were, he could spend hours peering into each one, ignoring her.
Chpt 3
- It is no longer the lying document Niccolo read us excerpts from at all, but now miraculously a long confession by Angelo of all his crimes, closing with the revelation of what really happened to the Lost Guard of Faggio.
Chpt 3
- Though she saw Mike Fallopian again, and did trace the text of The Courier's Tragedy a certain distance, these follow-ups were no more disquieting than other revelations which now seemed to come crowding in exponentially, as if the more she collected the more would come to her, until everything she saw, smelled, dreamed, remembered, would somehow come to be woven into The Tristero.†
Chpt 4
- She'd decided to come tonight to The Scope not only because of the encounter with Stanley Koteks, but also because of other revelations; because it seemed that a pattern was beginning to emerge, having to do with the mail and how it was delivered.†
Chpt 4
- But left it alone, anxious that her revelation not expand beyond a certain point.
Chpt 6revelation = something previously unknown; or making such a thing known
Definitions:
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(revelation) something that was previously unknown (and typically surprising); or making such a thing known
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) As a proper noun, Revelation refers to the last book of the Bible with visionary descriptions of the End of Days. It can also refer to things revealed religiously rather than via logic.