CoL49 (6) Either ... or ...

[David Payne]

This email thread started with Oed's doubts late in the novel, but don't forget that she had plenty of explicitly stated doubts early on:
 
That night the lawyer Metzger showed up. He turned out to be so good-looking that Oedipa thought at first They, somebody up there, were putting her on. It had to be an actor. (p. 17, HPMC, p. 17)
 
Either he made up the whole thing, Oedipa thought suddenly, or he bribed the engineer over at the local station to run this, it's all part of a _plot_, an elaborate, seduction, plot. O Metzger. "You didn't sing along," he observed. (p. 20)
 
a leggy, ringletted nymphet who, should there be a happy ending, would end up with Metzger (p. 20)
 
"What did Inverarity tell you about me," she asked finally. "That you wouldn't be easy." She began to cry. "Come back," said Metzger. "Come on." After awhile she said, "I will." And she did. (p. 30)
 
Yet if she hadn't been set up or sensitized, first by her peculiar seduction, then by the other, almost offhand things, what after all could the mute stamps have told her, remaining then as they would've only ex-rivals, cheated as she by death, about to be broken up into lots, on route to any number of new masters? (p. 31 - 32)
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