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

[Mark Kohut]

not that I can see....just all I could think of on an influence on a
nighttime trip...there have
to be others in literature but I drew a blank .

On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 10:51 AM, Thomas Eckhardt <
thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:

> 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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