Project Proposal Update

1)      I will take the task of expressing the experience of an African American female in the 1960’s that is attending Eastern Kentucky University. Her trying to find out who is as a person, where she fits into society, who she is sexually, and the difficulties that she experiences. a) I want the context of [...]

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Proposal Part 2

Part II Jazz by Toni Morrison  “I believed I saw everything important they did, and based on what I saw I could imagine what I didn’t: how exotic they were, how driven. Like dangerous children. It never occurred to me that they were thinking other thoughts, feeling other feelings, putting their lives together in ways [...]

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Informal Proposal

1)      I will take the task of expressing being an interracial couple, primarily a black and white couple, and the difficulties that come along with it. A). I want the context of my story to take place in the early 1900’s, primarily in the 1920’s. At this time racial tension was high. Slavery was abolished, [...]

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Response #6 extra credit

In the Crying of Lot 49, Oedipa goes on a search. However, at the end of the novel she has gotten anywhere from where she started. It is like every lead that she took and every thing that she researched, just led her back to the beginning. So Pynchon gives the reader no closure. This [...]

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Response to Hillary

From reading Hillary’s response 6 i intuit that Oedipa is searching for the answer to the whole mystery behind pierce, and the bones, and trystero, by first trying to find out information about a stamp. You can also intuit that she has agency because she keeps searching, however, her search is getting her no where. [...]

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Response #6

The auctioneer cleared his throat. Oedipa settled back, to await the crying of lot 49. As the auctioneer began to speak, Oedipa looked all around her for the mysterious bidder. He would surely be the proof of the Inverarity conspiracy. Oedipa’s thoughts started to wander away from the auction and towards Pierce. Did Pierce make [...]

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Blog #11 Extra Credit

One of the things that came up a couple of times when reading other people’s blogs was supplementary (constituent) events. Both Paige and Laura Hampson, talked about these minor events. The supplementary events are always important. That is the reason why they are there, because without them, the story wouldn’t flow evenly, the story would [...]

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Blog #11 Extra Credit: Response to Jake’s Blog

Jake mentioned the Dandelions and how the Dandelions were forgotten because they were paved over the freeway. This is linked to the bones, and how the dead people were forgotten because of the freeway. But even more, this made me think of the quote on page 95, that said Oedipa was meant to remember. I [...]

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Blog #11 Extra Credit: Response to Erin’s Blog

An interesting ideal that Erin said was how Pynchon can be connected to our other novels. Before I read her Blog I wasn’t sure how this novel compared to our other novels. But now I see. Each of these novels has an interface that connects the narrative to the expressed experience. Pynchon uses science and [...]

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Blog #11 Extra Credit: Response to Eric Roe’s Blog

One of the interesting things that Eric Roe said is that Oedipa can be paralleled to Maxwell Demon, that she is her own Maxwell Demon, connecting everything, and the seemingly unrelated things of the 60’s culture together. But, I remember us saying something about how Oedipa is the one thing that connects everything together. She [...]

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