CofL49, this reading

[Michael Bailey]

Laura wrote:

>> This sounds as if Oedipa's in the hands of some higher fate, as opposed to
>> being guided along by some shadowy conspiracy or posthumous plot engineered
>> by Pierce. One very frail link in the human conspiracy theory: One of the
>> Paranoid chicks makes an offhand reference (one of the offhand things
>> sensitizing Oedipa) to The Courier's Tragedy. Oedipa immediately decides she
>> must see it and also talk to the director. That's a big leap in causality.
>> What higher fate's in control? Surely not God. Maxwell's Demon?
>>

p 49 para 1 "eight memories unlooping* progressively into regions as
strange to map as their rising coils and clouds of pot smoke...."
that description might make an impression on her that would enlist her
attendance.  (she's into the arts: eg, she remembers not just a
disconsolate tune, but composer and opus) -----

* unlooping?