America, let it unfold: Misc. on Crying of Lot 49

[Mark Kohut]

in another spin--probably been said by someone else already without the
text below--- on the symbolic textual meaning(s) of Oedipa's name in The
Crying of Lot 49,

maybe it is as 'simple' or simply allusive as below. (With one addition,
Oedipa is searching
for her fathers, the founding [of the United states] fathers? )

In a review of a new novel by Benjamin Black, the pen name of John Banville
as
a mystery writer, Peter Brooks writes:   "like Oedipus, that early
detective undermined by a lack of knowledge of who his parents are"...

he goes on to say that Banville's "detective discovers that the secret is
so close to home that he should have guessed. It was repressed
knowledge.".....so true of so many mysteries, I'm thinking of
Ross "Freudian" MacDonald overtly.


A--And, a new history of the US Post Office reminds that it always hired
women and African-Americans (and other minorities) robustly, maybe even
proportionally, dunno, from its beginnings.
Which facts always reinforce my belief that the US post office stands as
the great institutionalized symbol for the promise of the United States and
for the unity of those states and our nation's citizens
major means of cheap, democratic communication.

Which is what is breaking down in Lot 49. Which is why the Tristero is
entering at this point in US history.
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