CoL49 group reading ch4 - slight correction?/ a more interesting question

[Michael Bailey]

I put:
2) from which we jump back to 2, 3, 4, and 5, which occur in succession


- should it be “2,3,&4 in succession & then we skip over to 5”?

The chat with Cohen could be before or after the Metzger/Fallopian
argument, I guess

It’s “one rainy morning” & it’s a week after Metzger toted the stamps

Whereas the “alone and gloomy” visit to the Scope was “a few days” after
Yoyodyne.


So how many is “a few days"?
- up to twenty, I’ve always thought

It could go either way, I suppose.

Another question - more interesting - is prompted by a scene in the Baby
Igor movie:

“…back came Cashiered. The little submarine, named the “Justine” after the
dead mother, was at the quai,

singling up all lines. [I set this separate because it reminded me of AtD]

A small crowd was seeing it off, among them the old fisherman, and his
daughter, a leggy, ringletted nymphet who, should there be a happy ending,
would end up with Metzger; an English missionary nurse with a nice build on
her, who would end up with Metzger’s father; and even a female sheepdog
with eyes for Murray the St. Bernard.”

- as an inveterate fan of Cupid’s machinations, I relate this to somewhat
of a rapport I infer between Genghis & Oedipa.

If the book has a happy ending & the Men in Black at the auction decide
Oedipa doesn’t pose a threat, then I posit that Oedipa will invite Genghis
up (if not to Echo Court, then maybe they’ll drive up to that nice
German-baroque hotel in Berkeley) for coffee.

And as George Costanza realized, coffee isn’t coffee - it’s sex!

https://youtu.be/TmMna1EwZ1E?si=ojLChrW8UeiXU9HL