TCOL 49

I believe Pynchon set out to make the reader feel as confused as Oedipa does throughout the novel. This book is written brilliantly is that's the case. Inverarity could have planned the whole mystery from the beginning. I was frustrated with attempting to make connections while reading this book I concluded, for the sake of being calmed, that Oedipa is probably on the LSD that Dr. Hilarius gave her at the beginning of the novel and she just hallucianed most of her travels. I feel like a conspiracy theorist, like Oedipa, trying to figure ou motives for writing this book, though he probably set out to overwhelm the reader with loads of information and confusing wording that occurred along with his endless sentences. I assume The Crying of Lot 49 was picked for a rhetoric of Vietman class to read, not only because of the settings and time period but also the many off elements which persuade the reader that a mystery/conspiracy novel conjures up. I think because the meaning is so hazy, one is forced to find serenity in their own conclusion, retrospectively after choosing their own path of understanding.