Laura's post and questions

[Tore Rye Andersen]

Mark:
 
> P is, in the sensibility of C of L49, Oedipa, yes? The most empathetic of TRPs protagonists, to quote 
> that Robin critic. Her quest is his, thematized, full of 'objective correlatives' as P's fave T. S. Eliot 
> called them. In a way, C of L49 is a portrait of an artist? .
 
In an interview, David Foster Wallace called his debut novel "The Broom of the System" (young, lonely woman on a 
frustrated quest for truth and genuine communication among a wilderness of conspiracies and linguistic 
codes - sound familiar?) a "coded autobio", and I also think this description is fitting w/r/t Lot 49.
On the other hand, Oedipa is far from empathetic enough. She has plenty of chances during the novel for
real empathy, especially during her night in San Francisco, but in the end she turns her back on them and
continues her quest toward a blinding revelation which never comes. In the end, she chooses the Word over
reality, whereas Pynchon the author would have us pay more attention to the latter.
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