paranoia ( Contemporary Novelists, 6th ed.)

[kelber at mindspring.com]

The question alone sends one into ever deepening spirals of fear:  What if I'm not really paranoid?  What if they're only making me think I'm paranoid?  I am paranoid.  What if ...

Isn't this exactly Oedipa's state at the end of the book?

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>

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>What is the difference between paranoia and the suspicion of it?
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>--- On Thu, 7/9/09, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> From: Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: Contemporary Novelists, 6th ed.
>> To: "Robin Landseadel" <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
>> Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
>> Date: Thursday, July 9, 2009, 12:25 AM
>> Paranoia, or the suspicion of it, is
>> not uncommon in the world.
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>> On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Robin
>> Landseadel<robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
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>> > On Jul 8, 2009, at 3:41 PM, Dave Monroe wrote:
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>> >> Paranoia, or the suspicion of it, is not uncommon
>> in the world of
>> >> Pynchon's novels.
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>> > Paranoia, or the suspicion of it, is not uncommon in
>> the world of dope
>> > smokers and acid heads. Not that there's anything
>> wrong with that . . .
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>> >
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