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[Becky Lindroos]

OEDIPA MAAS: OUR GUIDE TO 
CONTEMPORARY PARANOIA
THE ONGOING RELEVANCE OF PYNCHON'S THE CRYING OF LOT 49, 50 YEARS LATER
July 7, 2016  By Nick Ripatrazone

A global postal conspiracy. Post horns graffitied across southern California. LSD prescribed as treatment for anxiety. Obscene radio station hosts. Beatles cover bands. Widespread paranoia. The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon’s second novel, is quirky and eccentric even by Pynchon’s standards. Now 50 years old, the slim novel is truly a snapshot of mid-1960s culture.

John Ruskin has said “all books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hour and the books of all time.” Yet The Crying of Lot 49 occupies a strange third space: novels that are timely yet timeless—books that are so suffused with the cultural minutia and noise of a moment that their saturation itself helps them to endure.

More at: (it’s quite interesting - read the last paragraph anyway - ) 
http://lithub.com/oedipa-maas-our-guide-to-contemporary-paranoia/

Becky 
https://beckylindroos.wordpress.com

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