Deep Thoughts (meant in an SNL kinda way)

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Chapter 2, p26 (Harper):  "Echo Courts"  "Courts" can be understood
as both a noun and a verb.  Oedipa (Echo) will court Metzger.

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Chapter 1, p10:  The "whitewashed bust of Jay Gould":  Is it just
the bust that's whitewashed, or Gould's reputation, with Pierce
having admired or been inspired by Gould's accomplishments
with no thought to the means?  I think both are meant.

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This has been discussed before, how the so-called "inanimate"
world seems more alive and aware than the people.  Even the
highways are "arterial" (p15) and are injected with a needle to
nourish it (p26).  Though Oedipa's the one who's moving in her
car, it's the entrance to a building that whizzes by (p25).

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The Undead?  Chapter 2, p41:  Shortly after the hairspray
can/missile smashed the bathroom mirror, Oedipa "tried to find
her image in the mirror and couldn't."  Okay, more likely, that's
to show how she's losing herself, her identity.  But then there's:
"It struck her that if the sun ever came up Metzger would disappear."
Could this be a reference to vampires, meaning the characters are
as much dead as alive, or dead in some ways?

Last and probably least:  p38: "Lord Love a Duck" is a 1966 movie
starring former child star Roddy McDowall.  Any chance Pynchon 
intended a reference to this?  Could Pynchon have known of the
movie before it was released?

www.videoflicks.com:

"A high school student with telepathic powers woos a stuck-up 
co-ed by making all her dreams come true in this alternately light 
and dark comedy. Based on Al Hine's novel lampooning Southern 
California's youth culture."

www.imdb.com:

"Plot Outline: Nerdy high school student tries to make dreams of 
beautiful girl come true, no matter that they are rather empty dreams."
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And so on.

Diana