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Crying Of Lot 49
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The philosophy behind all Pynchon novels lies in the synthesis of
philosophers and modern physicists. Ludwig Wittgenstein viewed the world
as a "totality of facts, not of things."1 This idea can be combined with
a physicist's view of the world as a closed system that tends towards
.... Middle of Paper .... of clues or not participate at all.4
Oedipa's purpose, besides executing a will, is finding meaning in a life
dominated by assaults on people's perceptions through drugs, sex and
television. She is forced out of her complacent housewife lifestyle of
tupperware parties and Muzak into a chaotic system beyond her capabilities
to understand. Images and facts are constantly spit forth. Oedipa's role
is that of Maxwell's Demon: to sort useful facts from useless ones. The
reader's role is also one of interpreting countless symbols and meta ....
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