CoL49 Group Read

[J K Van Nort]

Wendel Maas has no abilities of value it seems, only a pathetic, debilitating empathy. Is there a cringiness to his DJing? His boss accuses him of being too horny when he should be a father figure to the teenagers who call him. Mucho doesn’t deny this; he cowardly mutters “censorship”, which implies that he deliberately acts horny. His miserableness contrasts with the descriptions of his movements, which Oedipa notices: bounding through the screen door, gliding across the room like a large bird in a thermal. Is Oedipa happy in this marriage? It’s hard to say since she follows her routine of wifely duties. Their bodies remain interlocked when Hilarius calls, I think she wants this to be true love, but her memories of and the vagueness of when her relationship with pierce ended, make it difficult to identify where her marriage and relationship with Pierce entwined.
In solidarity,
James

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