The Naming of Oedipa Maas

[Dave Monroe]

On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 4:51 PM, Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com> wrote:

> I always thought that "Oed" was also referring to the line from
> Tristan & Isolde by way of The Waste Land:
>
> "Oed und leer das mer" / "Empty and w.a.s.t.e. the sea"
>
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 9:18 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> https://www.pynchon.net/owap/article/view/12/67

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oedipus

http://www.oed.com/

"OED (Oed is Mucho's pet name for Oedipa)"

http://www.ottosell.de/pynchon/magiceye.htm

http://www.vheissu.net/articles/hollander_49.php#chap_1

See also Alain Robbe-Grillet's The Erasers, which features a worn
eraser where only the letters "DI" (of "Oedipe," an actual French
eraser brand, though this is never mentioned in the novel) remain.
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