C of L49 "a pattern was beginning to emerge"--p.89 hc

[Mark Kohut]

Oedipa recognizes. One thematic level presented pretty clearly.

There is the 'official' communication [mail] system of countries---including the US--
and there is..................another. 

"Wells Fargo men [official mail, then banking company] battled gallantly with a band of masked marauders in mysterious black uniforms."
Soon to be associated with anarchists?
 
"hooded hordes swarming",----From Eliot's The Waste Land.
 
A--and, we know men in black on black horses ride mysteriously through Against the Day. The past of Against the Day.