Last Post

End of the year and here we go, the last impressive post of the semester. The Crying of Lot 49!!! This is probably my favorite book of the year because it was both humorous and it went against the literary establishment, my two favorite things. Most of the time I feel like some of the interpretations given in English are pretty much B.S. and Pynchon speaks out in his book about searching for something where there is nothing to be found. Now I'm not saying that there never is more meaning and even most of the time there is, but reading too much into something is pointless and bad. Oedipa was a bored housewife who's paranoia fed by the fear of the could war looked for meaning in the meaningless throughout her life. While looking at a radio or the factories in the city she thought they were trying to tell her something more. Her paranoia was even more effected by the sighting of a secret society symbol throughout her adventures that lead her further and further down the road of craziness. One of the points I believe Pynchon was trying to make was that paranoia can leave you alone in this world and always leave you looking for something else. For Oedipa she lost everyone and never found what she was looking for.