On money and billy clubs

[Ian Livingston]

> the bemusement of Oedipa at all these people who don't use the US Mail
> ("a calculated withdrawal, from the life of the Republic" p 101)
> indicative of a residual belief, on her part, in the Republic...

Remembering that Oedipa is a Young Republican, of course.

> a bit about learning from history...

As per Santayana's infamously misquoted assertion that those who fail
to learn from the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them?

On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 7:05 PM, Michael Bailey
<michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ideally I could show how Oedipa's participation in the dance and
> alienation from it, sort of harmonizes with her pursuance of
> Inverarity's legacy (and the concomitant tangents) and her  "in it but
> not of it-ness" with respect to that also...
>
> how her thinking of how Arrabal would describe the ballroom scene
> segues into her different, disaffected reaction
>
>
> so, mise-en-scene?  pretty good one?
>
> loose ends:
> the relationship between Arrabal's miracle and Bakunin's
>
> the bemusement of Oedipa at all these people who don't use the US Mail
> ("a calculated withdrawal, from the life of the Republic" p 101)
> indicative of a residual belief, on her part, in the Republic...
>
> ideas of Oedipa as everyperson...some stuff about a feeling of lost community...
>
> some kind of notion of sensing the way back toward that community in
> further pursuing Inverarity's legacy (and, of course, the side trips)
> and keeping sensibly quiet about her suspicions while learning more
>
> a bit about learning from history...
>



-- 
"Less than any man have I  excuse for prejudice; and I feel for all
creeds the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the
trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments
of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates
than the simplest urchin in the streets." -- Will Durant