CoL49

[MASCARO at humnet.ucla.edu]

Well, welcome to this inhospitable list, Paul C. (BTW, don't sign w/ your initials, it'll 
definitely rile up some quarters).  Your question isn't stupid at all.  Maybe the answer lies 
in how WE want it to turn out.  Maybe she will want whatever outcome we discover 
we're secretly hoping for. 

john m


Paul C. writes:
>
>Hello.  I'm new to the list and relatively new to Thomas Pynchon--just
>finished CoL49, and read V awhile ago.  I have a question and I hope
>nobody thinks I'm stupid/annoying.  I'm wondering what some of you think
>Oedipa wanted at the end of Lot 49:  do you think she wanted Trystero to
>exist, giving her life some amount of structure, even if a very
>weak and scary one, or for herself to be insane?  I've been thinking about
>it a lot.  I know there are no hard and fast answers (esp. when you're
>dealing with a guy like Pynchon), but I'd just like to hear some opinions.
>Hope this question annoys as few people as possible--I'm certainly no
>expert, I just have been bowled over by Pynchon and his ideas.  
>Thanks
>Phil Christman (pchris56 at Calvin.EDU)
>