When duty calls we must write after two weeks after doing virtually nothing I am sitting at my desk listening to some music and reading The Sentence Is A Lonely Place Written by Gary Lutz. My last blogs show how lazy I was the week before I left for Armenia, which I offer my apologies because truly they suck.
When I was about to read this essay, I was thinking of how I was going to respond to it. I had no idea. As I read on I started getting trapped into the essay as if I were reading the Twilight Sage. Mr. Lutz has been one of the few that has captivated my attention and imagination to its fullest. Just as he was describing what writing truly is for him: “virtually every sentence had the force and feel of a climax, in which almost every sentence was a vivid extremity of language, an abruption, a definitive inquietude”, and as he said this I identified that this essay of his had that.

Cute

I’ve always asked how a movie of The Crying Lot 49 would be- this is not what I expected. Low budget movie but, a cute one.

Thank You, Your Hilarious

I’ve always thought that psychiatrist will end up mad after some years in their profession. Dr. Hilarius is truly hilarious, I hadn’t LOL since the beginning when “Mrs. Oedipa Maas came home from a Tupperware party”(1), but at the very end of a very long chapter I got out some laughs thanks to Dr. Hilarius. “‘He’s gone crazy. I tried to call the police, but he took a chair and smashed the switchboard with it.’ ‘Dr Hilarius?’ ‘ he thinks someone’s after him’” (108), do you know how much I laughed since this point on, I looked autistic. Thanks for the laugh Dr. Hilarius!

Realization

I don’t know if anyone has seen the enthusiasm of my latest blogs, and how much I’ve liked this book. Something that seems completely ridiculous to me at the beginning now is making some sense. Only until chapter 4 I’ve come to realize the target of this book, I feel stupid that I’ve only realize this until now, but at least I did. Last class Mr. Tangen was talking about the importance of the Paranoids in the development of the book, we even looked at one of their songs “Glee” and this is when I realized that the target of Thomas Pynchon is the United States Government and Economy in other words Globalization, “Convair boosts the satellite into orbits round; Boeing built the Minuteman, We stay on the ground.” (66) These rock songs that the Paranoids sing are typical 1960s rock songs of rebellion and youthful angst. The Rebellion against the Globalization in 1960s was characterized by rock bands and their followers and in The Crying of Lot 49 these are represented by Te Paranoids.

CL49

I never thought that satire could be this boring. I enjoy satire, especially those which are TV late shows are the best I even liked Voltaire Candide, but Cry Lot 49 is truly the worse satire I have seen or read. Thomas Pynchon needs to be original and not make fun of the “The Paranoids with Dean, Serge, and Leonard” and their smoking pot hobbies which is no shocker nor the suburban housewife that needs more than a Tupperware party in her life, we already have Desperate Housewives and trust me that’s muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuch better.

There Is Nothing More To Say

When invited to play that game of Strip Botticelli, in which Oedipa will have to remove one article of clothing for every question he answers. I thought it was very moral of Oedipa who “began putting on as much as she could on the closing she brought with her”(24) but too much tequila later they are on top of each other having sex. Someone haw low morals or at least ones that can bend easily.

CL49

1 word. Has 4 letters and starts with C.
Crazy is correct!
I have never seen a bunch of characters as odd as these that have been presented to me as I read Crying of Lot 49. Oedipa Maas a crazy women in my opinion who is coming “from a Tupperware party”(1) a Tupperware party.

Tupperware! How FML is that, let’s go to a Tupperware party! Woohoo! Sorry I have better things to do honey! And don’t get me started on Wendell Mass aka “Mucho”, were a bit irritable aren’t we? But you do have a reason for it I bet being a former car seller and a DJ at a radio station, isn’t what you imagine it be- you should of gone to college and do what you like, you wouldn’t be stuck with Oedipa. Don’t get me wrong I love satire but at least make it more interesting than a suburban family.