CofL49, still Chap 3

[Mark Kohut]

I remember your great Metzger post......but Oedipa cannot know it...

are we to think she came to learn it, as you have taught us all?
Which lends lots more weight to the after-book understanding---since she did not learn it before the end of the book.

So, since Metzger is the first one she interacted with ATER she left 
her tower, then whatever the Triostero is, must start there.............

Is it just Metzger or her infidelity with Metzger?....that is the beginning of
the They of Tristero, you think?





Mark:
Why is her infidelity with Metzger the LOGICAL starting point?

See my post about Metzger Post, which "logically" (not historically,
not "in the real world") precedes the alternative Tristero system.
Plus Metzger is introduced in these two sentences (16): "He turned out
to be so good- looking that Oedipa thought at first They, somebody up
there, were putting her on. It had to be an actor." (Note the
anticipation of GR's "They-system" here.) And Metzger does turn out to
be an actor in the "real or not or both" game of the movie on the
Tube, which itself is an early model for Oedipa's perception of the
Tristero.

Janos

2009/5/30 Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>:
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> "If one object behind her discovery of what she was to label the Tristero System
>  or often only the Tristero ( as if it might be something's secret title) were to bring
> to an end her encapsulation in her tower, then that night's infidelity with Metzger would
> logically be the starting point for it; logically. That's what would come to haunt her most,
> perhaps: the way it fitted, logically, together. As if ( as she'd guessed that first minute in San Narcisco)
> there were revelation in progress all around her."
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> Why is her infidelity with Metzger the LOGICAL starting point? One is a faithful wife in the tower?
> Since Mucho wasn't right (for her), then Metzger was the logical start of searching for love? Or
> sex outside of marriage is a freer "love", a liberation for her, a woman?
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> Notice how many guys want her in the book..but get nowhere.
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> Or, an act of adultery is the start of a shadow value system? The start of finding the Tristero?
> Is this 'shadow act' ---Ralph Ellison's book of non-fiction was called Shadow & Act
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