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

[Monte Davis]

Porky Pig comes up elsewhere in conversation with Mr. Thoth; no swine in
the night journey.

But reaching to the original Circe: when Odysseus went to rescue his men,
Hermes gave him moly as a protection against her spell

CoL49, 86-87: "At some indefinite passage in night’s sonorous score, it
also came to her that she would be safe, that something, perhaps only her
linearly fading drunkenness, would protect her.... she had safe passage
tonight... Nothing of the night’s could touch her; nothing did."

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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