CoL49 (5) Two or Three Things About Her

[Robin Landseadel]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfW5aYDhR04

Oedipa’s next move should have been to contact Randolph Driblette, but  
how was she to know that he was already dead? Metzger is already  
looking past his tryste at Echo Courts to his next—even more pervy— 
affair. Meanwhile, Oedipa tears off on a snipe hunt in search for hard  
evidence of this “Tristero” system. Oedipa is just as distracted— 
misdirected?—as Mucho was as she first leaves Kinneret in the Pines  
for San Narcisco. Oedipa was thinking of checking the home scene back  
in Kinneret as she drives out of San Narcisco towards Berkeley. By  
virtue of missing the off-ramp back to her tower, Oedipa won’t find  
out for another 35 pages that her husband Mucho has been drawn into  
Dr. Hilarius’ LSD project and the shrink himself appears to have  
flipped.

Mrs. Maas is about to step into an abyss.

As Oedipa misses the off-ramp for Kinneret in the Pines, let us note a  
few signposts. The fictional town name of Kinneret in the Pines evokes  
both Carmel by the Sea & Cambria in the Pines. Between these two real  
towns lies both San Simeon, W.H. Hearst’s old haunts & Big Sur, hippie  
haven of of Esalen fame and glory. Interestingly, LSD researcher  
Stanislav Grof set up shop in Big Sur in 1973.