Re: Oedipa’s Planetarium

[Mark Kohut]

The "Shall I project a world?" line I have always read as a world beyond
the one she lives in...
Beyond Pierce's esp now that the Trystero has entered. IS she asking
herself to project Trystero's world?
And is the world a projectible one---like religions' worlds are?....she is
asking herself that because no
revelations beyond this world are happening and she is losing her
world---her tower; Pierce's projections...

This IS a new cosmic vision....Pynchon's vision is not narrow, not simple,
not quotidian....

On Sun, Jun 2, 2024 at 12:35 PM J K Van Nort via Pynchon-l <
pynchon-l at waste.org> wrote:

> Oedipa continues with Driblette's planetarium metaphor that he is creating
> universes, but she seeks to project a world that Pierce Inverarity left
> behind. Why a planetarium and not a movie to define a life? Did Pierce’s
> life have a “pulsing, stelliferous Meaning” that could only be projected as
> a universe?
>
> We know why Driblette makes the comparison, but that doesn’t make sense
> with Oedipa unless she is just enamored of the idea.
>
> In solidarity,
>
> James
>
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