col 49: living sense daughters, cyclical frame

[lorentzen-nicklaus]

 ~~~ in chapter 5 (p. 94, picador edition), hilarius says: "there is me, there 
 are the others. you know, with the lsd, we're finding, the distinction begins  
 to vanish. egos lose their sharp edges. but i never took the drug, i chose to 
 remain in relative paranoia, where at least i know who i am and who the others 
 are. perhaps this is why you also refused to participate, mrs maas?" 

 there he could be right. inert oedipa she never spreads her wings. and the  
 novel's end suggests, in my understanding, not the big revelation to come, but 
 a cyclical frame à la finnegans wake: ... to await the crying of lot 49 > one  
 summer afternoon ... & here we go again ... yoyodyne lifestyle ... kai ... ps: 
 the sentence "but i  never took the drug" seems to 'falsify' the hilarius=leary 
 thesis, no? ~~~