COL49...Meaning and Nothingness

[Mark Kohut]

Oedipa: 
"She looked down a slope, needing to squint for the sunlight, onto a vast sprawl of houses
which had grown up all together, like a well-tended crop, from the dull brown earth; and she
thought of the time she'd opened a transistor radio to replace a battery and seen her first 
printed circuit.  The ordered swirl of houses and streets, from this high angle, sprang at her 
now with the same unexpected, astonishing clarity as the circuit card had.  Though she knew even 
less about radios than about Southern Californians, there were to both outward patterns a 
hieroglyphic sense of concealed meaning, of an intent to communicate."

Soon she hears a whirlwind which reveals nothing-----NB: "God spoke to Job out of the Whirlwind"----
and imagines her inability to hear any meaning as maybe what Mucho felt like when he saw music
behind glass doors he could not hear.........and could not belive in. 

At least, Oedipa gets no religious meaning---WORD---now out of the tower where she lives. Maybe the 
tower of San Narcisco, as towers usually do [in Eliade], once had that kind of meaning. 

But no longer fer sure.


3 AM, that dark night of the soul time. Time of anciety calls in Fitzgerald's "Crack-Up"  This reading I noticed
that Hilarious' call came 'out of the void".....and Varos' tapestry was surrounded by the void...............

Very scary new beginning (that she did not even know was new) amidst Nothing for Oedipa.


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