Post Follow Up: Pynchon

Post Follow Up

The Crying of Lot 49

This book has began to win my applause now that I finally have my actual hard copy which I received over the last weekend through the mail. I started reading the initial four chapters via the link provided in class that was bad because I struggle to read for a long time on the computer.

Initially I wasn't happy about how long the sentences were in The Crying of Lot 49 but the hard copy has helped a Lot! The sentence that I referenced in my previous Pynchon post was about page two paragraph four were Mucho is being "Back-Storied" involving his emotionally disheartening line of work. I now can appreciate all the mechanical devices he used to make the sentence not a run on. 

Now that I have the hard copy and have been reading past the fourth chapter the plot is still hot and the reader is still being drawn to try and look up all the confusing words. Oedipa is still lost in her disentanglement of Pierce's estate, and now having already met so many people and learned so much about the mysterious  "Muted Horn" so many opportunities arise as to how the story is going to unfold. In the back of the readers mind, you think this whole story is going to turn out that she is really hallucinating all of this. She has found so many symbols however, proving that the Trystero has survived test of time after the great Thurn and Taxis take over. After her conversations with Driblette, she was sparked to investigate the Trystero, after touring the plant and meeting Koteks the reader then kinda puts two and two together and its obvious that this cant be a hallucination because Koteks knows something about the Trystero .    

If its true that the Trystero really still exists, this may be the ultimate reward that Oedipa has been so desperately seeking. Is the Trystero still in existence? Did Pierce buy in with this secretive society and is that why at one point he "lost two million yet had still connections enough to keep the ball rolling," and was Oedipa the only person he could trust to not sell them out after he died unexpectedly?

The reader suddenly seems as if hallucinations might be spot on yet again but its not yet a disentanglement. Facts are starting to become reveled and maybe this is all coming true that the Trystero is going to make a come back. If so that would be big news for Oedipa.