COL49 _Courier's Tragedy_

[Thomas Eckhardt]

MalignD at aol.com schrieb:

> I think that's incorrect.  There is the hopeless belief in such a promise,
> quite a different thing.  A promise implies a promiser and there is none.
>
> <<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. >>
>
> But we don't know if that's true, do we, that the result is a chaotic absence
> of meaning.  The accumulation of signs might point to an historical Trystero.
>  In fact, one of the imperfections of the book (in my opinion) is that the
> meaninglessness is shifted at the end entirely onto the reader.  For all we
> know, everything comes clear for Oedipa five minutes after the book's end,
> with the crying of lot 49 and the appearance of the bidders.  Her situation
> might not be absurd at all; rather, she simply has lacked necessary facts.
>

Oh well, this is much better than my own poor attempt...

Thomas