Seeking COL49 critical source

[Kathleen Fitzpatrick]

Hi, all.  I'm trying to track down an article, and am at something of a
loss.  I've got these quotes, and I know I've read them before, but I can't
remember where.  Do any of these ring any bells?

"Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 promises a solution it does not
explicitly deliver by the end of the novel."

"In The Crying of Lot 49, Oedipa moves from sign to sign, always trying to
work beneath the layers of meaning to discover the true, underlying meaning.
While the reader tries to solve the mystery with Oedipa, the results of the
search are foreshadowedwithin the central allegorical image of Oedipa's
search, the game called 'Strip Botticelli.'"

"David Cowart describes the Varo painting viewed by Oedipa in Mexico City.
Interestingly, while the painting is described very realistically in both
texts, Cowart notes that Pynchon only describes a portion of the central
panel."

Thanks!

K.


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Kathleen Fitzpatrick
Department of English
Media Studies Program
Pomona College
kfitzpatrick at pomona.edu
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