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David Monroe:

<<My point rather has been that perhaps everything Oedipa (and, consequently, 
"we," as readers) might well find that she has been attempting to decipher, 
discover, uncover, whatever, has already largely been revealed, on, at, 
whatever, the so-called "surface" of the text, not to mention at its 
interface with, in its context of, mid-1960s America. >>

Perhaps I'm just dull, but this seems more fanciful than real.  I think it's 
more than a quibble to note that the event's of the book are propelled by a 
mystery regarding the meaning of a series of signs and events.  Again, I 
don't complain that no final answer is provided.  Rather that so little else 
is provided.  You may find (in) the book a 
metaphor/allegory/commentary/pastiche/something else (I don't mean to put 
words in your mouth or misprepresent your postion) on or about mid-1960s 
America (you may even find the Paranoids a welcome comic diversion), and 
these are certainly P's preoccupations in this thin and sketchy novel but, it 
seems to me, you're doing most of the heavy lifting.