The Crying of Lot 49 Essays
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“…there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth… another mode of meaning behind the obvious, or none. Either Oedipa in the orbiting of a true paranoia or a real Tristero”. This quote came from The Crying Of Lot 49 written by Thomas Psychon. Oedipa on her journey of trying to figure out this conspiracy she finds truth in people who are often marginalized, without the truth but confusion within herself. To find change within there has to...
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The Crying of Lot 49’s story-line is perhaps clearly explained by Randolph Driblette telling Oedipa, “You can put together clues, develop a thesis, or several… You could waste your life that way and never touch the truth” (56). The novel may seem frustrating to some readers, presumably undergraduate English majors, to search for meaning in Oedipa’s investigation into Tristero, involving a convoluted web of real and fictional references such as Clark Maxwell’s information entropy, The Courier’s Tragedy, and Calculus’s instantaneous...
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Few commentaries on the novel are silent on the subject of Oedipa’s name. Most take for granted that it is significant in a straightforward way: by referring the reader to some extra-textual network of meanings the name appropriates some or all of those meanings for the novel, which thus draws part of its own significance from the resonances they generate. This is the “conventional” response that at least one critic claims is unavoidable. Even if the name is a joke,...
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