AtD (37) p.1057 Discussion alert! Major meaning section, ?? thinks Host

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

Something to note about that passage in "The Crying of Lot 49": 
I probably never noticed this before—having read "The 
Automobile Graveyard" for the first time this year—this scene
in 49—

          . . . .or slept in junkyards in the stripped shells of wrecked 
          Plymouths, or even, daring, spent the night up some pole 
          in a lineman's tent like caterpillars, swung among a web of 
          telephone wires, living in the very copper rigging and 
          secular miracle of communication. . . .

Sounds much like:

          The play takes place in front of an automobile graveyard. 
          In the background, the carcasses of automobiles piled 
          on top of each other.
          The automobles are all old, dirty and rusty. Those in the 
          first row have burlap curtains instead of glass in the windows.
          
          Fernando Arrabal: "The Automobile Graveyard", page 9

The characters in "The Automobile Graveyard" for the most part
live in these junked cars, some are even lower—begging to get 
into one of these wrecks. This is the side of the tracks Oedipa 
never really was aware of before. Lew moving into acceptance
of his preterite status might be the curtain-raiser for the actual
final resolution of the novel's traditional "plot" with the final downfall
of Deuce. And then into the unknown future and the novel's coda.