Chap 4 YoYodyne, factory of war

Mark Kohut markekohut at yahoo.com
Mon Jun 1 06:15:51 CDT 2009




p. 82 "It was some such feeling" [to at least project an arrow on the dome] that ...got her to a Yoyodyne stockholders' meeting.
 
Old men's hands on her thighs. Men who might have been twins---like Romulus and Remus, founders of Rome? Their hands roaming dream landscapes?? Dream landscapes usually positive places in TRP's world...What men want? Old men too old for Oedipa's fertility? 
Is Oedipa a female version of the Fisher King? Or, as Robin and others say, a Mary symbol? If she becomes pregnant, the land is
now OK?
 
"Quonset building, gunboats, invasion, platoon-sized groups (next page)" ....workers like a military action. 



      




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