Is Oedipa Mad?

John Bailey johnbonbailey at hotmail.com
Thu Aug 2 23:06:33 CDT 2001


V. In which we track the disassembly of V's body.
GR. In which Tyrone Slothrop is lucky enough to be 'present at his own 
time's disassembly' (quoting from memoreeee)
Soooo....would you agree that COL49 depicts a pretty picture of Oedipa Maas' 
psychological (and I would add social) disassembly?
Vineland, perhaps, an era's disassembly?
And M&D, the disassembly of History?

These are just some fresh still-warm-from-the-oven thoughts, but if you line 
them up chronologically, you get a sort of moving-outward motion, a Big 
Bang, the centre cannot hold...

john

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