reading from the margins Niran Abbas editor

[Terrance]

Malignd wrote:
> 
> <<Madeline Ostrander -- Influence and incest:
> relations between The crying of lot 49 and The great
> Gatsby >>
> 
> It's about time someone looked into this.

I think Tanner looks into the relationship between Gatsby and Lot 49,
the Pyncher and Fitz and the like, but not incest. others have looked
into the relationship of TGG and VL. 



Incest? Why incest? 

Oedipus and Oedipa and  ... Gatsby? 

Sophocles implies that incest and exile, too much unity and
  too much diversity, are not opposites but are, literally,
  two sides of the same coin. He also suggests, what the
  audience believed, that incest and parricide are acts that
  obliterate the distinction between man and beast, inside and
  outside, the wild and civilization. What Oedipus lacks (and
  Thebes as well) is some middle term, an Aristotelian Polis
  that mediates between our divinity and animality, making us
  whole in a community constituted by diversity.” 287
  So says,  J. Peter Euben in  The Road Home: Pynchon’s The
  Crying of Lot 49, the concluding chapter of his The Tragedy
  of Political Theory. [1990]