"nulliverse" meaning in English

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          "text": "If the world cannot be rational in my sense, in the sense of unconditional surrender, I refuse to grant that it is rational at all. It is pure incoherence, a chaos, a nulliverse, to whose haphazard sway I will not truckle.",
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          "text": "If rationality be in it at all, it must be in it throughout ; if irrationality be in it anywhere, that also must pervade it throughout. It must be wholly rational or wholly irrational, pure universe or pure multiverse or pure nulliverse ; and reduced to this violent alternative, no one's choice ought long to remain doubtful.",
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          "ref": "1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle:",
          "text": "You admit yourself that I am only a pale wild girl with gipsy hair in a deathless ballad, in a nulliverse, in Rattner's ‘menald world’ where the only principle is random variation.",
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          "ref": "1969 August 2, John Updike, “Books: Van Loves Ada, Ada Loves Van”, in The New Yorker, volume 45, number 24, page 67:",
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          "ref": "2004, Donald Gardner, Suzanne Jill Levine (tr.), Three Trapped Tigers, Dalkey Archive Press, translation of Tres Tristes Tigres by Guillermo Cabrera Infante, published 1967, page 480:",
          "text": "... one of the infinite seas that swim in a bubble of a phenomenal ocean where there are no longer any stars because the stars have lost their name: the nulliverse, and wondering if Bustrófedon's sentity was expanding multiversally, ...",
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          "ref": "2012, Charles Stross, Cory Doctorow, The Rapture of the Nerds, Tor Books, page 291:",
          "text": "And Huw is abruptly ejected from whatever pocket nulliverse the Prophet’s fifth column have installed in the lobby of the virtual Tripoli Mariott, to a destination even more profoundly alienating than the cloud itself.",
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