CoL49 group reading - 4 brief notes from earlier chapters

[Michael Bailey]

1) Oedipa spread a blanket and poured booze into cups made of white,
crushed, plastic foam.

—- styrofoam cups still kind of a novelty?

(Actually, styrofoam is a misnomer, I just learned:
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/styrofoam-history )


2) Fellow who’s chasing me,” allowed Di Presso, holding the cup between his
teeth so it covered his nose and looking at them, arch.

—— party behavior, confirming his goofiness


3) From the ad for Fangoso Estates - night 1, Echo Court

“One of Inverarity’s interests,” Metzger noted. It was to be laced by
canals with private landings for power boats, a floating social hall…

—— floating! I didn’t catch that before


4) …in the middle of an artificial lake, at the bottom of which lay
restored galleons, imported from the Bahamas; Atlantean fragments of
columns and friezes from the Canaries; real human skeletons from Italy;

—— ooh, foreshadowing the skeletons!

Also, the list, which I never paid much attention to before, is almost a
“spoils of colonialism” list