CoL49 (5) Two or Three Things About Her

[Paul Mackin]

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> 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.

Chapter 1 leads us to think it's a town along El Camino.

If she and Roseman attend group theapy with a photographer from Palo Alto.

Sounds like Menlo Park to me.

P
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.