CoL 49 (1) love, anyway [PC 6]

[Robin Landseadel]

Oedipa is empathetic:

	You comfort them when they wake pouring sweat or crying out
	in the language of bad dreams, yes, you hold them, they calm
	down, one day they lose it:  she knew that.

. . . this innate tenderness makes it very easy to like Oedipa & her  
reflexive acts of kindness. The way she is always present in the novel  
makes her unique in Pynchon's writing.