Oedipa's Nighttown. Goes out to The Mexican Girl in second last para, so to speak.

[Thomas Eckhardt]

Interesting thought.

Apart from the visit to Hades/the Underworld -- is there 
something in this section of CL49 (I don't have the book 
handy) that might justifiably be read as a transformation 
of men into pigs, a metamorphosis (if not a "met him pike 
hoses" which would presumably be under the responsibility 
of a different department in the Ministry of Witchcraft 
and Religious Beliefs)? We are talking about Circe, after 
all...


On Tue, 26 Jan 2016 07:09:53 -0500
  Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> Been thinking on Oedipa's all night busride in Lot 49. 
>pp 98ff
> 
> I do think it might be intellectually inspired by 
>Joyce's Nighttown
> section in Ulysses, where we encounter the brothels and 
>lots of
> the underclass worlds so to oversimplify. You can look 
>it up.
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