CoL49 (5) Sidney [Genghis] Cohen

[Paul Mackin]

On Mon, 6 Jul 2009, Robin Landseadel wrote:


>> And perhaps a dark side of obsession (vs when you get the message, hang 
>> up), as Oed moves away from her previous life, becoming gradually isolated, 
>> moving from fidelity to casual sex to friendship to talking to strangers to 
>> just watching ... devoid of meaningful human relationships.
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> By any reasonable measure, Oedipa [at the very least] goes temporarily 
> insane.

But she was holding off on final committment until she found out whether 
Tystero was real, in which case it wouldn't be necessary.

P