Cof L49 Whiteness

[Mark Kohut]

Somehow Oedipa got lost [no there there?]--the metaphor continues--amongst somnolent old men--the old tower creators caught in the tower long ago?---

p. 84 Then she is in a whiteness ala The White Visitation [GR], the White City [AtD], a Pynchon trope concerning the abstracting, the leaching of the world's color; on white paper, paper-pushing creators of our damaged world. [Remember that Gennaro at end of The Courier's Tragedy was a 'colorless administrator'] As contrast, think of all the color in AtD..the light across the "ranges" and so much more.
 
Still waiting for someone to "rescue her"....still Rapunzel-like.....near-panic and "no way out", it soon seemed. This corporate part of the tower was now everywhere no exit.
But twice we read that no one noticed in YoYodyne. The impersonality of the corporation. Oedipa is invisible there.