CoL49 group reading - Ch4 - who with

Mark Kohut mark.kohut at gmail.com
Mon Jun 17 10:15:58 UTC 2024


Thank You, Michael....who woudda thought to do this? But you.

On Mon, Jun 17, 2024 at 12:50 AM Michael Bailey <
michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
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