Crying Ch.3-4
This events in this book are incredibly bizarre, but the randomness and variety of things that are thrown at reader definitely keep me interested as I'm stuck wondering how exactly everything ties together as well as what is going to happen next.
Pynchon continues to introduce oddly named characters as he adds Mike Fallopian (presumably a play on fallopian tubes) to the collection. Tristero/Trystero is mentioned frequently, as is WASTE and the weird horn symbol, as well as mail and stamps.
Early on in chapter 3 it becomes apparent that Oedipa hasn't told Mucho about the affair.
"The letter itself had nothing much to say had come in response to one of her dutiful, more or less rambling, twice-a-week notes to him, in which she was not confessing to her scene with Metzger because Mucho, she felt, somehow, would know" (32).
Normally I would feel bad for a guy who is being cheating on and is fully unaware, but Mucho Maas seems to want much more than just Oedipa since he apparently enjoys younger woman on the side.
"Would then proceed at a KCUF record hop to look out again across the gleaming gym floor...groping her vertical backstroke...seventeen and what is known as a hip one, whose velveted eyes ultimately, statistically would meet Mucho's and respond, and the thing would develop then groovy as it could when you found you couldn't get statutory rape really out of the back of your law-abiding head" (32).
Oedipa had asked Mucho about it and he didn't seem to care, and even seemed to be a bit annoyed by her questioning. Oedipa also doesn't seem to care very much that Mucho is doing this since this passage is glossed over and forgotten relatively quickly in the context of the rest of the chapter. The two don't seem particularly close since they just send each other letters twice a week that are fairly uninteresting. Oedipa seems content with cheating as well as with letting her husband who works for a radio station that is f**k spelled backwards (KCUF) do his thing with younger girls.
Later in Chapter 3, there was lowkey some Oedipus complex type stuff in The Courier's Tragedy, as Duke Angelo plots to marry his sister Francesca to Pasquale. The only problem is that Francesca is Pasquale's mother. There's also some incesty stuff with Duke Angelo and Francesca.
"So, says Duke Angelo, I will bribe a cardinal. He has begun feeling his sister up and nibbling at her neck; the dialogue modulates into the fevered figures of intemperate desire, and the scene ends with the couple collapsing onto a divan" (51).
Pynchon continues to introduce oddly named characters as he adds Mike Fallopian (presumably a play on fallopian tubes) to the collection. Tristero/Trystero is mentioned frequently, as is WASTE and the weird horn symbol, as well as mail and stamps.
Early on in chapter 3 it becomes apparent that Oedipa hasn't told Mucho about the affair.
"The letter itself had nothing much to say had come in response to one of her dutiful, more or less rambling, twice-a-week notes to him, in which she was not confessing to her scene with Metzger because Mucho, she felt, somehow, would know" (32).
Normally I would feel bad for a guy who is being cheating on and is fully unaware, but Mucho Maas seems to want much more than just Oedipa since he apparently enjoys younger woman on the side.
"Would then proceed at a KCUF record hop to look out again across the gleaming gym floor...groping her vertical backstroke...seventeen and what is known as a hip one, whose velveted eyes ultimately, statistically would meet Mucho's and respond, and the thing would develop then groovy as it could when you found you couldn't get statutory rape really out of the back of your law-abiding head" (32).
Oedipa had asked Mucho about it and he didn't seem to care, and even seemed to be a bit annoyed by her questioning. Oedipa also doesn't seem to care very much that Mucho is doing this since this passage is glossed over and forgotten relatively quickly in the context of the rest of the chapter. The two don't seem particularly close since they just send each other letters twice a week that are fairly uninteresting. Oedipa seems content with cheating as well as with letting her husband who works for a radio station that is f**k spelled backwards (KCUF) do his thing with younger girls.
Later in Chapter 3, there was lowkey some Oedipus complex type stuff in The Courier's Tragedy, as Duke Angelo plots to marry his sister Francesca to Pasquale. The only problem is that Francesca is Pasquale's mother. There's also some incesty stuff with Duke Angelo and Francesca.
"So, says Duke Angelo, I will bribe a cardinal. He has begun feeling his sister up and nibbling at her neck; the dialogue modulates into the fevered figures of intemperate desire, and the scene ends with the couple collapsing onto a divan" (51).
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