The Crying of Lot 49, the Group Read of 2024

[David Morris]

So:

1. The “WHAT” which precedes (ushered in, causes?) “that which remained”
(buffered sensation/experience), is Oed’s realization that she has been
caught *irretrievably* by a malignant force of Magic.

2. Her intuition told her that if she let down her hair, she would be
rescued. But the malignant force transformed her hair into an artificial
lie. Powerless hair. Oed has no defense against that magic.

3.  Oed sought escape, was DEMONSTRABLY 👿 thwarted. And is sent/embarks on
a journey whose *environment*, *that which remains*, is a kind of limbo,
disassociation, shock.

David Morris

On Sat, May 11, 2024 at 9:58 AM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> “she was to have all manner of revelations [..] about what had remained
> yet had somehow before this, stayed away.”
>
> “What had remained” after WHAT? Before WHAT?
>
> What REMAINED is something that had “stayed away” before. Something had
> (for some reason) avoided her before: “ The sense of buffering,
> insulation.” Something brought this new guest to her door, and it was
> staying now.  It feels like a description of dissociation, being “there,”
> but not there, like an audience or witness. This is a reaction akin to
> shock, and is usually a built-in protection against extreme trauma.
>