The Crying of Lot 49: Chapter 1
Mapping the Zone: A Thomas Pynchon discussion podcast
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The Power of Money
I expected Mucho to be a much bigger presence in the rest of this book I did too definitely. It almost seems like he gets more play in buying land at the end of buying land and that's almost more than he gets in the rest Of This Book. Is it just her discontent is it her search for meaning is it her isolation what what is the tower? We're obviously only in the first chapter so it's hard to say too much about how important this chapter is in terms of the plot itself but I think it does establish a lot of very important elements that are going to come as we go through the book. "It was really interesting that he came in there like the way
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