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The Foundation

This institution is a center for psychoanalysis in Topeka Kansas.

The Cue Ball

This is an ordinary day-to-day object that becomes a weapon in the hands of a disaffected character; it is also presented as a kind of emblem for a deterministic fate in which it was unavoidable, and spun platonically in space for all time.

The Man-Made Lake

This is where the novel starts, where the main character and his girlfriend are talking, until the girlfriend suddenly decides to go home.

The False-Bottomed Box

This is a gift that has a hidden recess, which is likened to the unconscious.

The Spread

This is a debate technique in which a debater introduces an enormous number of arguments into an argument at high speed, in order to overwhelm the opponent, and to win points, for each of the arguments ‘dropped,’ (i.e. not responded to) counts against...

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