A Little Lost

I have never read a book like this one. Clockwork Orange is the most similar book that I have read, it is absurd and thing that have nothing to do with each other happen. I have the same feeling that I had while reading Clockwork Orange, I feel a little lost. I have paid a lot of attention reading the book but sometimes is loose track of what is happening and what Thomas Pynchon is trying to transmit. I know that it is a satire, which is trying to make fun of various things. I know that because in class we discussed it. So obviously I was attentive to the making fun of someone or something and ironies.

One I found was that Oedipa criticized the sign of the motel where she stayed, she thought that, “The face of the nymph was much like Oedipa’s, which didn’t startle her so much as a concealed blower system that kept the nymph’s gauze chiton in constant agitation, revealing enormous vermilion-tipped breasts and long pink thighs at each flap.” (pg.16) The nymph was at the sign of the “Echo Courts” motel. Pynchon is very straight forward, he is making a connection with a hooker and Oedipa. It actually becomes a foreshadow of what is to happen next. Indeed Oedipa is kind of like a hooker, she cheats on her husband, with Metzger, the lawyer. After only one night of flirting around and playing around and, “She awoke at last to find herself getting laid; she’d come in on a sexual crescendo in progress, like a cut to a scene where the camera’s already moving.” Oedipa was actually the one that started sex, Metzger was asleep, and she “began kissing him to wake him up.” (pg.29) she becomes the nymph of the sign, the sign that had not surprised her, because it was herself.