Cof L49, Chapter 4, p. 81 hardcover
Mark Kohut
markekohut at yahoo.com
Sun May 31 13:25:34 CDT 2009
More FYI (especially for new plisters): The pynchon wiki is the indispensable first place to go for initial understandings
of stuff in C of L49 (and P's others)...I do not allude to it much because I assume we all know and use it
and I try not to be unecessarily redundant. (I'm just necessarily redundant 'cause I can't help it).
P. 81 hc: "no more disquieting than "other revelations". They are now "crowding in" exponentially, as Oedipa's
adventures grow in number. Anti-entropically? The further she comes down from the
Kenneret tower structure--although the tower IS still everywhere---the more revelations.
("these follow-ups [of The Courier's Tragedy] went 'a certain distance") Now, as in
"revelations all around her", the revelations are clearly beyond the happenings around The Courier's Tragedy.
Heikki wrote: "the enervated landscape of V. has also been
replaced in COL49 by an electrified ambience of many possibilities."
Riff: One of the early good reviewers of C of L49 wrote that it read like an outtake of V. As early Heikki
says, the possibilities, the revelations happening in C of L49, show it as a new start for TRPs vision, not as
an outtake from "V.". Yes???
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