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transferred . . . . Among them they
had managed to turn the young
Oedipa into a rare creature indeed ,
unfit perhaps for marches and sit-ins,
but just a whiz at pursuing strange
words in Jacobean texts."
It
is Dul–
lesian peace, the peace Nixon prom–
ised to structure, the peace of the
pointsmen, that makes Oedipa the
nervous and frustrated interpreter
she is in
Lot
49 . In a sense, she is
Slothrop's issue, a child of the fifties
fashioned in the forties who wakes up
in the sixties. And so the gyres turn in
Pynchon's fiction. What
is
one to
make of Blicero? Where does he fit
along the scale of Leverenz's sympa–
thetic responses?
As for the accusations liberally
strewn throughout Leverenz's letter,
they are just so much
chepuhah.
Gravity's Rainbow
provokes out–
raged disbelief, not my essay .
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