CoL49 (6) What She was Pregnant with

[Robin Landseadel]

On Jul 12, 2009, at 9:32 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:

> And the “you” is everybody. ....[from early in L49 re 'She Loves  
> You'.}

Late, late, late—post apocalyptically late. After her harrowing in San  
Francisco, after she finds out her psychiatrist is not only mad, but a  
torturer, a Nazi who experimented on her husband, after Hilarius turns  
Mucho Maas into something no longer recognizable, after the end of the  
world as she knew it, unhappily ever after, after, after . . .

	When it was time for him to go back to the station, he nodded
	toward the pills. "You could have those."

	She shook her head no.

	"You're going back to San Narciso?"

	"Tonight, yes."

	"But the cops."

	"I'll be a fugitive." Later she couldn't remember if they'd said
	anything else. At the station they kissed goodbye, all of them.
	As Mucho walked away he was whistling something
	complicated, twelve-tone. Oedipa sat with her forehead resting
	on the steering wheel and remembered that she hadn't asked
	him about the Trystero cancellation on his letter. But by then it
	was too late to make any difference.

Everything that happens in chapter six is post-apocalyptic.