Paranoia and the Normalization of the Deviant Psychic Fringe

[Robin Landseadel]

“. . .All this, of course, only if there is a Trystero: Oedipa's  
haphazard
investigation into the matter, which takes her up and down the
California coast between Berkeley and Los Angeles, is inconclusive. . .”

And yet, if not Trystero, or Tristero or another empire of sadness,  
then all these
very slight differences make these enterprises close enough for rock &  
roll.
What makes Oed’s investigation endless is the need to take this  
omnipresent
pall and give it a name, a history, take a mug shot from a perp in one  
of Philip
K. Dick’s scanner suits. In Against the Day the true nature of anarchy  
is on full
display as one mode of disgusing/flaunting the counterfeit is followed  
by
another, postal forgeries and brand new forms of syntonic transmission  
of
coded messages via the aether follow in close, trackless profusion.

On Nov 6, 2008, at 6:19 AM, Dave Monroe wrote:

> Paranoia and the Normalization of the Deviant Psychic Fringe
> Kevin Hilke
>
> Wednesday, 11. 5. 2008  –
>
> Ms. Oedipa Maas, protagonist of Thomas Pynchon's 1965 novella The
> Crying of Lot 49, in the process of executing the sizeable estate of
> her former boyfriend, California real-estate mogul Pierce Inverarity,
> stumbles upon or imagines, all on her own or courtesy of Pierce's
> pre-death machinations, Trystero: a long-established underground
> organization of mail couriers whose power has killed off, figuratively
> and literally, Thurn and Taxis, the dominant European mail service
> from 1290 to 1867, and the early U.S. private posts . . .
> http://plasmapool.org/2008/11/05/paranoia-and-the-normalization-of-the-deviant-psychic-fringe/
>