Less is More...

[Bonnie Surfus (ENG)]

Regarding "epiphanies," I suppose I agree with Chris and Jan. I think.  I 
recall understanding that the only epiphany in CL 49 was getting to know 
(for the reader) what the title referred to.  

The Tristero/WASTE issue--they are manifestations of Oedipa's (as I get 
your reading) mind that help her deal with a lack of consensus and 
resistence, an essential tension, seems likely and I guess I had this in 
mind as I read.  but this did not dismiss the possibility of an acutal 
Tristero and an acutal WASTE.  That, because it's Pynchon, because it CA, 
and because reality is, after all, a construction.  

Bonnie