CoL49 (6) Leery of What She Might Find

[David Payne]

On Sat, 11 Jul 2009 (02:40:09 -0500), Dave Monroe (against.the.dave at gmail.com) wrote:

> Has anybody actually done this? "Wrote down what you can't deny" at
> al. Is it at all possible to do so?
 
I think that only Descarte has done it successfully, and he only came up with one item on his list: "Cogito ergo sum."
 
 
> Further, how'd y'all feel when
> first reading Mike Fallopian's patronizing dismissal? How do you feel
> about it still? Me, it made me not simply disappointed, but downright
> crestfallen, anxious, "reluctant" (ritually?), queasy, "viscera
> hollow," even. Still does. "Leery," indeed ...
 
Deflated. If the text had not specifically called out Fallopian as compassionate, I would've been mad at him: "Fallopian watched her, nothing if not compassionate" -- although that's a really weird way to word it, "nothing if not."

> "OK, Oedipa told herself, stalking around the room, her viscera
> hollow, waiting on something truly terrible,
> "OK. It's unavoidable, isn't it? Every access route to the Tristero
> could be traced also back to the Inverarity estate." (Lot 49, Ch. 6,
> p. 170)
> 
> Does Pynchon, or The Crying of Lot 49, at any rate, ever come down on
> one side or the other of any of the book's various "either/or"
> elements? If so, how so? If not, why not? U.s.w., et soforthiam ...
 
Is there really anyone who thinks that Oed was put on? I'll bet that all readers either believe that she uncovered the truth, or they believe that the reader is not supposed to know.
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