CoL49 group reading ch6 part 1 - (3) skimming lightly

[Joseph Tracy]

> On Jul 26, 2024, at 2:09 AM, Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> “First thing after unpacking she was on the horn to Randolph Driblette”
> 
> - on the horn - subtly tying this phone call to “the horn”
> 
> 
> Next calling Bortz, “…a wife named Grace answered, backed by a group of
> children.”
> 
> “backed by a group of children”
> - quietly suggests a phone call as a kind of performance
> 
> Is this a subtle comparison to the Paranoids? More of a contrast, I guess:
> these kids are in the age group among which Serge’s ostensibly seeking a
> rebound chick. They don’t seem likely prospects, thank goodness!
> 
> 
> 
> “Oedipa showered, put on a sweater, skirt and sneakers, wrapped her hair in
> a student like twist, went easy on the makeup. Recognizing with a vague
> sense of dread that it was not a matter of Bortz’s response, or Grace’s,
> but of The Trystero’s.”
I completely missed this line. Wow, have read it several times.  No memory.  
> 
> So now she’s dressing to impress The Trystero.
Does she want maybe  to be identified with the students at Berkeley. Signaling to Trystero  a resistance to deception. 
> 
> 
> 
> After leaving Winthrop Tremaine to gloat among his hoard of horrible
> costumery,
> 
> “She drove savagely along the freeway, hunting for Volkswagens.”
> 
> Why Volkswagens? The Hitler connection? What does she plan to do with them?
> Or to them?
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