Lot 49, the tower is everywhere.

[Mark Kohut]

A friend of mine has read The Crying of Lot 49 for the first time. 
In discussion, I educated him a bit on the concept of 'the tower' in comparative religion, in Yeats, in Pound/Eliot
modernism down to 'All Along the Watchtower'.................
 
He said, I have recently reread Oedipus Rex and in the translation I had, when Oedipus meets Queen Jocasta on
the road and is asked who he is, he says, "I Am Oedipus, the Tower"............
 
That's Oedipus, one of Oedipa's ancestors somehow. 
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