re: Vineland's Shocking ambiguity

[Bandwraith at aol.com]

Bandwraith at aol.com wrote:


  [759.18]

  "The Room continues to fill up, the Dawn
  not to arrive."

  So, Tox has made it to Philly, despite the
  cautionary advice of M, and to some extent
  D... come to lead his people out of captivity
  to the promised land, across the Schuylkill.
  684.17

  Meanwhile, it is the chosen, the "effigied"
  that will offer the issue of Mason succor:

  "...all Commisioners of the Line twenty
  years earlier, now will prove, each in his
  Way, their Salvation upon this Shore." 773.02

  Interesting contrast, that. So maybe it is
  Tox's "Mobility that is to be..." 759.12, that
  will become, finally, the users of W.A.S.T.E.,
  like the sailor who presses his letter into
  Oedipa's hand, hoping for delivery, while his
  "buddy" hopes for a portion of the ten she
  spotted the old swabbie.

  "Who Isn't?" [COL49, 128.16, H&R. 1986, '90]

  So where's the Golem- put to good use at
  last? "...as if something outside, beyond
  the cold Wind, has driven them to this
  extreme of seeking refuge." 759.09

  If there is any hope in the novel, it seems
  to me, it thus with Tox, and his people,
  operating under a different sort of 
  Commission.

  regards