COL49 _Courier's Tragedy_

[Thomas Eckhardt]

> There is an over-accumulation of signs in _Lot49_, an excess of pattern,
> "revelations which now seemed to come crowding in exponentially" (56.4), all
> of which results in exactly the same chaotic absence of meaning.

...or points to the ultimate revelation of meaning. As the novel comes to an end we
don't know, and neither does Oedipa. I agree with you that we find a
"constantly-unfulfilled promise" in "Godot" too, but there are no suggestions that
this promise will ever be fulfilled. Instead it becomes quite clear that Godot will
never arrive and that all there is to expect is endless repetition, whereas at the
end of COL49 we may be just one step away from the final revelation.

Sorry,  right now I don't have the time to answer in detail.

Thanks,
Thomas