CoL49 group reading - Ch4 - who with

[Michael Bailey]

Who’s Oedipa with?
Just up thru chapter 4, as an exercise:

Ch1
Alone with memories - pp 6-8
Though she does go to “the market in downtown Kinneret-Among-The-Pines to
buy ricotta and listen to the Muzak (today she came through the
bead-curtained entrance….”
Kind of a hippie vibe, that market

With Mucho - pp 8-12

Detail of Phone call from Dr Hilarius waking them both at 3am  pp 12-14


With her lawyer, Roseman - pp 14-15

Alone at indeterminate place with memories of Pierce & narratorial hints of
revelations to come - pp 15-16


Ch2

Bidding Pierce farewell - p 17

Driving to San Narciso, having a “religious instant”, passing Yoyodyne,
settling on Echo Court, on her own - pp 17-20

With Miles - pp 20-21

With Metzger - pp 21-29

With Metzger, Paranoids intruding/serenading
pp 29-30

With Metzger & the Tube, Paranoids & extras audible in the bkgd - 30-32


Ch3

Narratorial animadverting - p 33

With Metzger at Echo Court & the Scope - 33-35

With Metzger, bartender telling them about electronic music - pp 35-36

With Metzger, Mike Fallopian joining them (the saga of Peter Pinguid, mail
call) - 36-38

Alone in the ladies’ - 38

With Metzger & Fallopian - 38-40
(Introduction to private mail delivery in the US)

Narratorial animadversion (the languid sinister blooming of the Tristero) -
p40

With Metzger and The Paranoids at Mar a Lago - er, Fangoso Lagoon - pp 40-42

Joined by Manny DiPresso (and watched from afar by Tony Jaguar’s henchmen)
- pp 42-48
- Oedipa, interestingly, calls DiPresso a “selfish shmuck” for not lending
money to Tony Jaguar
- this kind of sympathy sort of chimes with Maxine’s in BE, personal
loyalty trumping the letter of the law?
- her immediate sympathy for poor Tony Jaguar the mobster, to the point of
impugning the generosity & character of someone she just met, is kinda
weird tho’ imho. Maybe she’s being sarcastic or facetious.

Anyways…

With Metzger at a staging of The Courier’s Tragedy, & braving his ire,
directly afterwards - pp 48-57

Walking thru dressing room full of actors, then with Driblette - pp 57-60

With Metzger in the car, listening to Mucho’s program on car radio - p 60


Ch4

Narratorial animadversion - p 61

Alone, rereading Pierce’s will, drawing a W.A.S.T.E. symbol & writing
“Shall I project a world” in her memo book - p 61

Yoyodyne interlude - sat between 2 old, somnolently handsy dudes /
inadvertently separated from her tour group, meets Stanley Koteks / the
tale of Clerk Maxwell & his Demon - 61-66

With Fallopian (and, “Metzger, who’d come along to The Scope this evening”
indicating she’s probably been there without him, and beginning to edge
Metzger out of center stage) - pp 66-67

Time-shuffled peregrinations to:
Lake Inverarity, with only the memorial plaque for company;
Zapf’s Used Books, a brief exchange with Zapf; Vesperhaven House (senior
citizen’s home), colloquy with Mr Thoth
- I’d say “old Mr Thoth” but he’s really “young Mr Thoth,” and his
grandfather was “old Mr Thoth”;
 a brief chat with Fallopian, who doesn’t know anything beyond the merest
hint about the Tristero;
and a lovely meet-cute/pleasant interlude with Genghis Cohen
 - pp 67-74