Shall I jerk off?

[wood jim]

--- Mutualcode at aol.com wrote:
> Even to the backdrop of the fuguing Paranoids, it's
> still a lonely way to spend the evening, no? But
> wait, Oedipa, mid-orgasm, hears a full six (or so)
> quitar "voices" come fuguing in, but The Paranoids
> only play three... "So others must be plugging in."
> But who? Are they dressed in black?

Why dressed in Black? 
What is the connection? To the CT actors? 
I think MalignD is right, we have all 
manner of possibilities, but Oed is the POV
from which we conceive them and we can't 
get outside and look in. Even if one of Paranoids
playing the voyeur were to peep in on Oed and 
Metz, either Metz's  head would be under the 
couch, or they would be, literally, in the
closet, Metz's legs in the bottom draw.  



> 
> All's well that ends well, and Oedipa, to Metzger's
> "Come back...Come on," does say "I will." Doesn't
> that echo the quintessential Shakespearean rag that
> the bard was always humming in the background of his
> works, and would later form the resolution of what
> would become "existential" in our own ragged
> century? 

Resolution? That Shkespearean Rag, say in 
The Waste Land, reduced, bereft of fertility
wills not to will. 




What are equi-valent alternatives, after
> all is said and done, without the will to choose
> between them, but random background noise?




> 
> There's more to the slim volume of her world than
> Oedipa is aware of, no matter the choices she makes
> to set it straight. Pierce, even in his finite
> lifetime as Metzger confides, was (is?)
> unpredictable.

Sophocles, Oed the King. 

We can't, even with the confidence of an 
Athenian, know the unpredicatable powers
of poweful men. 


> 
> The neatly contained mutually exclusive choices
> given Oedipa- all four of them- just before the
> curtain drops, are not the whole of this story. 
> 
> Go there. Live There. Fish there...
> 
> better,
> mutualcode


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