Oedipa's family

[jporter]

>I sent a message to Terry C privately on this subject, but it seems to
>have sparked some continuing if unfocused interest, so . . .
>
>_Lot 49_ has several suggestive references to mothers--Metzger's,
>Pasqual's, the dolphin-liberator's, Grace Bortz, etc.--but none I can
>think of to Oedipa's _except_ to "those dear daft numina who'd mothered
>over Oedipa's so temperate youth."  Those mothers.
>
>jmk
>
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If I had to speculate (and you KNOW I have to speculate) I would say that
Necessity is Oedipa's mother....But Oedipa, like Clementine, was proboably
raised by her father, who sits now broken-hearted, pining for his lost
daughter.

And lost she be, sucked under by a a strangely seductive whirlpool of
trivia...like Ophelia, victim of a prince who can't decide...

jp