Oedipa?

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Don,
    I agree that Lot49 does not hold up well upon re-reading after many
years.  But don't forget, Kurt Mondaugen, as well as Bloody Chiclitz, appears
in V,49,&GR.  He's an engineer at Yoydyne.  I'm starting to see him as quite
an important character.  He's on the other side but some of the things he
goes through in the three books make him an ambiguous character.  I have to
do more reading on this before I can come up with something more specific.
 Any ideas, anyone?
     Vineland has been a disappointment to me.  I enjoyed it and it was fun
to read.  Plenty of laughs and the usual great ideas but not the masterworks
 that V and GR are.  Maybe it will stand in the same pivotal relation to the
books it is bookended by as Lot49 does to V and GR.

                                          Ron Churgin