The Crying of Lot 49 Group Read 2024

[Mark Kohut]

I can do it in four words....(and why is the question framed this way
anyway?)

 "only to drift tonight,"

On Sat, Aug 3, 2024 at 11:52 AM Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

> Could you give 3 words of a sentence? I cannot find anything very like
> this. The closest I found was below, which does not have the same
> implications. Definitely not the 'no resistance against any answer'.
>
>         "Here in San Francisco, away from all tangible assets of that
> estate, there might still be a chance of getting
>         the whole thing to go away and disintegrate quietly. She had only
> to drift tonight, at random, and watch nothing happen,
>         to be convinced it was purely nervous, a little something for her
> shrink to fix."
>
>
>
> > On Aug 2, 2024, at 12:53 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I just reread the section starting around page 109, in which OED
> > consciously throws herself to the winds of fate, vowing to offer NO
> > RESISTANCE against any Answer, as revealed in her observations of life as
> > she floats Through the night. SHE HAS BECOME THE LITTLE BLACK BALL ON A
> > SPINNING ROULETTE WHEEL.
> >
> > The first answer to her question reveals Mostly her mind to US THE
> READER.
> > We see how she experiences events, and processes her “free” experiences,
> > now that she’s decided to be ruled by an invisible force.
> >
> > David Morris
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 1, 2024 at 6:25 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> page 106...Harper Perennial edition.
> >>
> >> ....."into the great empty glare of the Oakland afternoon".......along
> >> streets
> >> she never knew, across arterials that even with the afternoon's lull
> nearly
> >> murdered
> >> her....up long hillsides jammed solid with tow-or-three-bedroom
> houses:....
> >>
> >> Oedipa follows the Trystero postman through the land where the preterite
> >> live....
> >> Pynchon connects the Trystero to them, those who do not communicate via
> the
> >> USPS, the overt national communication system....
> >>
> >> The Trystero is real; it is in touch with the real. This is part of what
> >> Morris means
> >> in his perspective on What is Real in this novel, I want to say....(He
> >> means more than this, but this too,
> >> right? )
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