CoL49 (1) Too Much Kirsch in the Fondue page one-ish

[Robin Landseadel]

	One summer afternoon Mrs Oedipa Maas came home from a
	Tupperware party whose hostess had put perhaps too much
	kirsch in the fondue. . .

We start in a suburban world, stable to the point of of stasis, a  
throwback to the fantasies of the fifties. Oedipa Maas is a Young  
Republican living in "Kinneret-Among-The-Pines," possibly an analogue  
for Carmel by the Sea, possibly a stand-in for Cambria in the Pines— 
two towns filled with good conservative values and high-ticket nick- 
knacks.:

	. . . her trip to the market in downtown Kinneret-Among-The-
	Pines to buy ricotta and listen to the Muzak (today she came
	through the bead-curtained entrance around bar 4 of the Fort
	Wayne Settecento Ensemble's variorum recording of the Vivaldi
	Kazoo Concerto, Boyd Beaver, soloist) . . .

Oedipa Mass---possibly the most empathetic of all of Pynchon's  
Characters---starts off as one of the most conservative of all of  
Pynchon's characters. We start with a young woman facing right and by  
the end of the novel she has been firmly been directed west. By the  
end of the novel she might as well be Edie Sedgwick:

http://www.jiscilla.com/photoblog/images/EdieSedgwick.jpg