CoL49 - Ch6 Part 1

[Mark Kohut]

Oedipa has been, as with getting all her clothes off, now internally
naked and almost clairvoyant...

On Sat, Jul 27, 2024 at 4:38 PM J K Van Nort via Pynchon-l <
pynchon-l at waste.org> wrote:

> Two quick thoughts about Oedipa. First, why does she describe Metzger's
> new flame as "depraved" instead of him? Does she fall into the blame the
> woman trap?
>
> Second, when she says she is being "stripped" and on the edge of an abyss,
> with all her male figures leaving one-by-one, a page later, we get the
> description of the Scurvhamites slowly having the "glamorous prospect of
> annihilation" coaxing them over. Is there any connection between these two
> images? Has Oedipa become too obsessed to be objective?
>
> In solidarity,
> James
>
> Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone
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