Back from the beach

[Robin Landseadel]

On Jul 26, 2009, at 3:13 AM, Tore Rye Andersen wrote:

> Together with Vineland, this is probably the closest we'll get to an  
> autobiography by Pynchon.

Consider, if you will, Oedipa as regendered OBA, his/her edge of  
awareness expanding just before making the connections, finding folks  
she/he only just ran into—like Genghis Cohen—showing up for the  
auction. Perhaps The Crying of Lot 49 is the most veiled & metaphoric  
of the three California novels. Perhaps the author—as Charles  
Hollander suggests—found something so extreme that it scared him,  
forced him to write as an exile in his own country, disguised within  
his character.