The Crying of Lot 49 Group Read 2024

[Joseph Tracy]

> On Aug 3, 2024, at 12:06 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I can do it in four words....(and why is the question framed this way anyway?)
I simply could not recall what David is describing and so I looked for it and the only thing I found, which apparently is the correct reference, does not say the same thing to me at all. I doubt most readers would derive the same meaning as David offers. So I thought maybe it was a different passage.
> 
>  "only to drift tonight,"
> 
> On Sat, Aug 3, 2024 at 11:52 AM Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net <mailto: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."
>> 
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>> 
>> > On Aug 2, 2024, at 12:53 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com <mailto: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 <mailto: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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