C of L49 questioning the Tower structure

[Mark Kohut]

> Laura sez:
> 
>> I don't really get the feeling that Pierce has guided Oedipa
>> towards Tristero and W.A.S.T.E.  She seems to have found them
>> by the act of questioning Pierce's investments, the source of
>> his wealth, starting with the bones-into-charcoal dealings.

Same for me. Seems the paranoid possibility of this fades with a close reading.