col 49: living sense daughters, cyclical frame

[Otto]

Kai wrote:
~~~ 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? ~~~

>From a postmodern point of view: no, not necessarily.
Hilarius could be an ironic inversion of Leary. And what Hilarius says about
the drug is true: "the distinction begins
 to vanish." If "egos lose their sharp edges" the binary opposition between
the Ego and the Other, between in- and outside vanishes, things begin to
oscillate.

And of course you are right about the "cyclical frame à la finnegans
wake" -- a precise description.

Otto