The Crying of Lot 49: Chapter 2
Mapping the Zone: A Thomas Pynchon discussion podcast
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The Death of a Loved One
I think that one thing that can be lost in this book is that this book is basically a book about the grieving process and about death. There's totally a world in which she doesn't care about that loss of consent in the moments before sex because she did fully intend to consent but it's just a horrible thing to say. I think that you can kind of lose sight of that pretty easily with this book with all the absurdity and all the little jokes. It's very it's a very pension thing to kind of do this whole like laugh to keep from crying thing. That comes up a lot in pension.
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