COL49: lots of lots

[Otto]

Lots of "lots"

This is something that gets lost in the translation, which made me read P.
in English:

Dic.:
[1.] the whole number or quantity
[2.] a lot of, a great amount of
[3.] as an adverb: very much
[4.] the making  of a selection or decision by methods depending on chance
[5.] person's fortune or destiny
[6.] item, sold at an auction sale
[7.] collection of objects of the same kind
[8.] plot of land

Title: "The Crying of lot 49" -- [6. auction]
p. 9: "the lot on the pallid, roaring arterial" [8.]
p. 9: "whatever it was about the lot that had stayed" [8.]
p. 9: "who'd visited the lot once a week" [8.]
p. 9: "the lot being a sponsor" []
p. 9: "He had believed  too much in the lot []
p. 15: "auto lots" -- [7. wasted cars]
p. 16: "lot" -- [8. parking lot]
p. 17: "watch (...) movies a lot" -- [2.]
p. 29: "about to be broken up into lots" -- [7. collection]
p. 34: "you could've bought lots in the heart of downtown LA" -- [8.]
p. 48: "a lot of talk" -- [2.]
p. 54: "parking lot" -- [8.]
p. 100: "car lot" -- [7.]
p. 103: "lot of 37 longs" -- [2.]
p. 106: "might have looked at a lot versions" -- [2.]
p.121: "as lot 49" -- [6.]
p.121: "the lot" -- [7.]
p. 121: "the lot in the auction catalogue" -- [6.]
p. 127: "to await the crying of lot 49" -- [6.]

The last words of the book are a repetition of it's title.

Otto