The Love Connection

[Christian Benjamin]

I see the obvoius connection between Tristan/Tristero, they both are 
myths.  Scholars and other learned individuals traced the Romance of 
Tristan back to the 12th or 13th century, when chivalry was a code woven 
into the fabric of societal encounters.

What I'm trying to say, in a not so profound way, is that the idea of the 
tristero and the conspiracy, as Oedipa is concerned,  sucks her in to the 
post horn and W.A.S.T.E investigation.

	_LITWW_    "The passion contained in the original myth Spreads 
out into everyday life, invaded the subconscious, and invoked or, if 
necessary, invented new compulsions............... In having shed its 
original guise ,it has merely become more dangerous.  Fallen myths can 
distil venom even as the dead truths alluded to by Nietzche. (pg22)"

In my interp. Oedipa has fallen to the above.  I need to elaborate on the 
connection but my narrow mind is not cooperating