So when we last left Oedipa, she was very confused. There are so many version of "the Courier's Tragedy" and no way to determine the correct one and where did the Trystero couplet come from?
This week we should be able to finish the book and then the following week we will do a wrap up and introduction to Gravity's Rainbow.
Be there
Commerce Street Brewery Monday April 28, 5pm
Bruce
When we last left Qedipa, she had gone home and discovered that her husband and shrink had gone insane. We are now heading into the last chapter #6 where the Trystero conspiracy gets murkier and murkier.
We should be finishing this book in two more meetings and the I think we should then do a wrap up session and I'll give an intro to Gravity's Rainbow which will be the next Pynchon read.
Gravity's Rainbow takes work so I'll be posting resources here to help with the read
One of those will be lectures by this guy, John David Ebert. I don't always agree with him but he does one of the best analyses of Pynchon. Here is his take on the last chapter of our current read.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SixxazhuSQk
If you will be buying a copy of Gravity's Rainbow this is the one to get
Meeting same time same channel. Commerce St Brewery 5pm, April 21
See you soon
