Is Oedipa Mad?

[Richard Romeo]

John wrote:
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>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...
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not half-baked at all, John (me, I as a kid used to love to eat half cooked 
cake batter ;))
if we follow the moving-outward motion, the planned Hilbert novel could 
revolve around the disassembly of the universe in some way, seeing as 
Hilbert was investigating the fundamentals of that discipline which seeks to 
depict logically the workings of said universe, namely mathematics. Just a 
shot in the dark, but I wouldn't be surprised if the yrs 1912-1914 plays a 
large role, or 1904 or 1922.

Rich (mmm...cake batter)
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