On Oedipa, Oedipus, the tower was everywhere and a family in decline

[Mark Kohut]

Many commentators on CofL49 bring up "Oedipus the King" in annotating Oedipa's name. Searching for the truth and all that, but a parodic spin is the consensus, I think, because of very different plot "results"--therefore meanings? 

I have reread Oedipus after all these years and I just want to make an ob or two which surprised me, while they are fresh in my mind. 

Re: The tower as in 'the tower is everywhere"....well, I had no memory of how pervasive that was as a metaphor in Oedipus....from the beginning, as in Hamlet, The Wasteland, the tower metaphor describes the land with a sick 'king'---who doesn't know he is sick. Late in the play: the chorus: "like our saving tower---soared above the rotting shambles here."

Henry Adams foreshadowing: 
At the end, Oedipus wails to his daughters that no one will want to marry them because of their origins: 'and life for you is all decline: a doom to empty spinsterhood." 

And, speaking of the anarchist dance miracle & Kute Korrespondences: The Chorus at the end of Episode two sings: "Could I celebrate such wickedness/And celebrate the dance?"...

And, in another Kute P Korrespondence, Jocasta sez before she learns the truth: "How can a man have scruples when it is only Chance that's king?/ There's nothing certain, nothing preordained;/it's best to live by chance as best we may."

And never rememebered that Oedipus thru Sophocles so blamed Apollo overtly, the god of rationality, for his fate. 

from the oracle known as wiki:
In literary contexts, Apollo represents harmony, order, and reason—characteristics contrasted with those of Dionysus, god of wine, who represents ecstasy and disorder. The contrast between the roles of these gods is reflected in the adjectives Apollonian and Dionysian. 
Apollo is often associated with the Golden Mean. This is the Greek ideal of moderation and a virtue that opposes gluttony.

in my translation, after Oedipus has put out his eyes, the Chorus sings of "a world of pain"....Ah Sobchak, Ah humanity!