CoL49 (6) The Crying of Lot 49

[rich]

On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 12:09 AM, Michael
Bailey<michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
>  Dave Monroe wrote:
>> "The auctioneer cleared his throat. Oedipa settled back, to await the
>> crying of lot 49." (Lot
>> 49, Ch. 6, p. 183)
>>
>
> like Finnegans Wake, it cycles back into the beginning, so that
> Oedipa's presence at the auction segues into emotion recollected in tranquility?
> Cool.  Never noticed or thought that before.
> Though I remember thinking that there's a certain "mingling of levels"
> by having the book
> entitled "The Crying of Lot 49" as if the book itself *were* said Crying...
>________
sorta like Pynchon's Orwell essay bout the ending of 1984, a more positive spin?

this past reading led me to believe Oedipa is looking back at the
recent past--there's a few clues

rich
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