Why would is this book named after "the crying of lot 49" as Pynchon puts it at the end of the book? Does the title have any significance at all or is it just another way of mocking the reader.
I didn't like that Metzger had gone away with Serge's ex-girlfriend because it made impossible for the book to have a typical happy ending of Oedipa and Metzger since Mucho was on LSD. Finally Oedipa gets to know Professor Emory Bortz the cause of that chaotic trip to San Narciso she had. It was really weird that there were students on a kind of party-reunion at the Professor's house. Finally I'm glad someone responds about the Trystero affair. I thought it was tragic that Driblette committed suicide because of two reasons. First he knew all the answers to the further questions Oedipa might have regarding Trystero and also because he was the other option for the book to have a typical happy ending of him ending up with Oedipa.
I thought it wasn't good for the book that one of the trigger questions that made it evolve and continue, kept unanswered. It left me with a feeling of doubt and emptiness. This last part of the book was very dense and included a lot of historic things that Pynchon recited almost as if he knew them by memory. So many of them, so detailed, I even got to doubt if they were all real of if it was made up by the author. Despite the unanswered question of Oedipa, she and the reader get to know the whole history about the Trystero system and its origins in Europe which was good, but a bit dense in the way Pynchon portrayed it.
On the other hand I found upsetting that it was suggested by the author through Mike Fallopian's character that the whole trystero system and its history was just a fake conspiracy created by Pierce. I sopped thinking that Oedipa was kind of crazy when she was called by Cohen and informed that there was a "We Await Silent Tristero's Empire" on the corner of a stamp which meant the supposed W.A.S.T.E. did mean something and that it was related to the posting system just as she had found out written in the corner. However, I was bothered when I got to know it came from the Bookstore who had been just burnt just there in San Narciso. However, when I got to know that Pierce owned that bookstore all together with the theater in which the Courier's Tragedy had been preformed, and that he also had helped a lot in the development of San Narciso College to which one of the main pieces in solving the whole Trystero enigma (Bortz) was teacher at. Once again I thought the whole book was just a joke since it had made me believe the entire conspiracy thing when it could actually just be a prank designed by Pierce.
I thought that the author should have kept Oedipa searching and investigating in other new places until she could make sure that it just wasn't an invention of Pierce. However, if the author had decided to do this, at the end, maybe we would be equally or more confused due to Oedipa's insanity and her strange hallucinations. Apart from the veracity and liability of the whole Trystero system and its history, I am not sure if I understood why the title was The Crying of Lot 49. I believe that it is called like that because this event will be the one that will allow Oedipa to get to a real explanation about the Trystero system and if it really exists. I would have liked better the book if it had included what happened to Oedipa afterwards, what did she do with Pierce's belongings and if the whole trystero thing was true or not.
Vocabulary:I didn't like that Metzger had gone away with Serge's ex-girlfriend because it made impossible for the book to have a typical happy ending of Oedipa and Metzger since Mucho was on LSD. Finally Oedipa gets to know Professor Emory Bortz the cause of that chaotic trip to San Narciso she had. It was really weird that there were students on a kind of party-reunion at the Professor's house. Finally I'm glad someone responds about the Trystero affair. I thought it was tragic that Driblette committed suicide because of two reasons. First he knew all the answers to the further questions Oedipa might have regarding Trystero and also because he was the other option for the book to have a typical happy ending of him ending up with Oedipa.
I thought it wasn't good for the book that one of the trigger questions that made it evolve and continue, kept unanswered. It left me with a feeling of doubt and emptiness. This last part of the book was very dense and included a lot of historic things that Pynchon recited almost as if he knew them by memory. So many of them, so detailed, I even got to doubt if they were all real of if it was made up by the author. Despite the unanswered question of Oedipa, she and the reader get to know the whole history about the Trystero system and its origins in Europe which was good, but a bit dense in the way Pynchon portrayed it.
On the other hand I found upsetting that it was suggested by the author through Mike Fallopian's character that the whole trystero system and its history was just a fake conspiracy created by Pierce. I sopped thinking that Oedipa was kind of crazy when she was called by Cohen and informed that there was a "We Await Silent Tristero's Empire" on the corner of a stamp which meant the supposed W.A.S.T.E. did mean something and that it was related to the posting system just as she had found out written in the corner. However, I was bothered when I got to know it came from the Bookstore who had been just burnt just there in San Narciso. However, when I got to know that Pierce owned that bookstore all together with the theater in which the Courier's Tragedy had been preformed, and that he also had helped a lot in the development of San Narciso College to which one of the main pieces in solving the whole Trystero enigma (Bortz) was teacher at. Once again I thought the whole book was just a joke since it had made me believe the entire conspiracy thing when it could actually just be a prank designed by Pierce.
I thought that the author should have kept Oedipa searching and investigating in other new places until she could make sure that it just wasn't an invention of Pierce. However, if the author had decided to do this, at the end, maybe we would be equally or more confused due to Oedipa's insanity and her strange hallucinations. Apart from the veracity and liability of the whole Trystero system and its history, I am not sure if I understood why the title was The Crying of Lot 49. I believe that it is called like that because this event will be the one that will allow Oedipa to get to a real explanation about the Trystero system and if it really exists. I would have liked better the book if it had included what happened to Oedipa afterwards, what did she do with Pierce's belongings and if the whole trystero thing was true or not.
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