The Crying of Lot 49: My Thoughts
Jan. 19, 2024
"Like the church we hate, anarchists also believe in another world. Where revolutions break out spontaneous and leaderless, and the soul's talent for consensus allows the masses to work together without effort, automatic as the body itself." The Crying of Lot 49, written in 1966 by Thomas Pynchon, follows Oedipa Maas as she embarks into the subliminal realm of conspiracies and counter-revolutions that lies beneath a Southern California in the midst of hazy, directionless unrest. Filled with a cast that includes washed-up entertainers, postulating and posturing academics, nazis and ex-nazis, aging radio DJs and punk rock kids, this America is a force of anarchy that may not have leader or a purpose, but is a coordinated exertion of history nonetheless. |