Throughout history, humanity has arranged various ways to communicate. Since old little Lucy stepped on Northern Africa, communication has been a technique embraced by the thousands of following generations in order to convey ideas and feelings through voice, writing, or sound. We’ve seen communication through shapes in tablets, encryptions in pyramid walls, singed poetry, letters, songs, TV broadcast, books, and off course, the internet, which permits me to communicate with you. Through the Crying Of Lot 49, Pynchon evokes communication as a central figure of the plot itself. Since the beginning of the story we notice Oedipa’s reception of a letter: communication. After the reception of the letter, Oedipa undergoes a process of thought which involves television, fairytales, God, and the state of being drunk. These coincidentally are all related to communication in one way or the other.
The scene at the hotel room between Oedipa and Metzger is a perfect example of how television and the state of being drunk play a role in communication. In common culture, of course, when being drunk you feel things don’t make sense. To Oedipa, the sensation is no different: “She felt drunk. It occurred to her, for no reason, that the plucky trio might not get out after all. She had no way to tell how long the movie had to run. She looked at her watch, but it had stopped. “This is absurd,” she said, “of course they’ll get out”” (22). In this state of asceticism, Oedipa undergoes a process of uncovering in the bet they establish, were Oedipa will have to take one article of clothing every time she loses. Pynchon might have used this scene as just an example of how communication might affect our senses, or the fact of Oedipa taking her clothes off can be a complete metaphor of the story itself. We have noticed that since she received the letter in page 1 of this novel, every page has been like taking an article of clothing off: a new mystery is uncovered, a new hint is given to the reader.
The scene at the hotel room between Oedipa and Metzger is a perfect example of how television and the state of being drunk play a role in communication. In common culture, of course, when being drunk you feel things don’t make sense. To Oedipa, the sensation is no different: “She felt drunk. It occurred to her, for no reason, that the plucky trio might not get out after all. She had no way to tell how long the movie had to run. She looked at her watch, but it had stopped. “This is absurd,” she said, “of course they’ll get out”” (22). In this state of asceticism, Oedipa undergoes a process of uncovering in the bet they establish, were Oedipa will have to take one article of clothing every time she loses. Pynchon might have used this scene as just an example of how communication might affect our senses, or the fact of Oedipa taking her clothes off can be a complete metaphor of the story itself. We have noticed that since she received the letter in page 1 of this novel, every page has been like taking an article of clothing off: a new mystery is uncovered, a new hint is given to the reader.
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