COL49 - THEY?

[kelber at mindspring.com]

This comparison rings true.  When faced with conspiracy, Oedipa's (and Slothrop's) only defense is to fade away.  Though it's more the book itself than Oediap who fades away at the end of COL49.  A very different ending to Kafka's The Castle (or it's reinvention as The Prisoner), where we and the protagonist learn at the end that THEY are US (echoes of that in the quote Dave cited in his post).

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>

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>What happens in CoL49 reminds me a great deal of Antonioni's "Blowup",  
>where the protagonist gets caught up in a maze of clues that lead to a  
>murder only to find all traces of evidence of the crime disappearing.  
>By film's end the protagonist himself fades out.
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