Tentative Theory of CoL49

[Mark Kohut]

Surely one of the resonances of the ending. It ends on becoming. 

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> On Oct 10, 2019, at 8:51 PM, jody2.718 via Pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org> wrote:
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> Psssst...Oedipa doesn't know she's fictional! Shhhhhh... she thinks she's real- like you and me! Not just an alluring character dreamt up by a stoned hippie/beatnik shacked up on the western edge of America,
> trying figure out the destiny of the vast continent at his back, as he stares out to sea.
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> And what a long strange trail it might seem to him now- how far we've come since then- from Woodstock to Bumpstock...
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> and still trying to be free.
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> Self-identity is hard to pin down, but like a butterfly, once pinned, it ceases to be.
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> Becoming, it seems, is the key.
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> "Click"
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> "...At the end, when Passerine begins the auction, she has gravitated to a situation that makes sense to her, and when the door clicks shut, it's closing the rest of the world out - not jailing her Ugolino-like - centering her in a room where she will be somewhat empowered but, one hopes, not a threat to other bidders, and will learn more."
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> jody
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