Bonus Episode 21 on the Crying of Lot 49: Historioplastic Acts of Metaphor Reifying the Magic of Language and Resurrecting the Legacy of America, feat. Dr. Pig Bodine and the Chums of Chance
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The Secret of Trantero by Edipa Moss
The book is basically her having a sery, like going through a series of scenarios in which she's possibly uncovering clues about this conspiracy. The last line of the novel is, shewai, the crying of lot forty nine. So it's explicitly like, it just, like, leaves you hanging. There's noy if you're looking for, i to find out what happened, it's not going to give it to you. But tristero has allegedly been used for a really long time as an way for people who have been exiled or excommunicated from society to communicate.
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