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Now THIS is a wild detective story, and the reader is commanded to pay attention and join in on the hunt. So Trystero - shadowy assasins and rivals to both a European postal service AND American one. Symbols of black, night, secrecy, silence. 'Natives' with black feathers who hunt at night. The disgruntled engineer doodling the symbol. Is Trystero a still surviving underground network? Now I think I get it . .. .
— Jul 22, 2023 05:16AM
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R
is on page 101 of 152
Oed slips into what I think is psychosis, the narrative itself takes a turn for the wild. All sorts of chance encounters, all bound by the 'Trystero' emblem. The prose also starts to melt into stream-of-consciousness, reflecting the escalation of events. Oed's husband addicted to LSD was also very entertaining. Note: Not like 'Gravity's Rainbow', which is a sweaty orgy of cryptic and fringe encyclopaedic references
— Jul 23, 2023 05:44AM
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is on page 56 of 152
Bruh . . . conspiracies; Jacobean revenge play; and lots of words I had to google the definition of. It's turning into exactly the kind of fever-dream of a novel I expect from Pynchon, but I know I'll need summary notes at some point.
— Jul 21, 2023 06:21AM
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This is a mad little parade of a story so far. Everyone is mentally ill, or traumatized, or damaged in some way, and the result is a strange, hallucinatory narrative. I like how a headache is described as "flowering behind the head." I love that nobody can be trusted, not even the narrative itself. How much of what happens is REALLY happening, and not just the paranoid delusions of Oedipa and the others?
— Jul 20, 2023 07:23AM
