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The Crying of Lot 49 (1966) is a novel by Thomas Pynchon. The shortest of Pynchon's novels and often considered[by whom?] his most accessible, the book is about a woman, Oedipa Maas, possibly unearthing the centuries-old…
- Introduction
- Characters
- Plot summary
- Allusions within the book
- References in popular culture
- Notes
- References
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Discuss the relationship between these worlds, for example, Oedipa participates in Nefastis' physics experiment while Porky Pig cartoons are on TV. She is attending a Tupper-ware party while thinking about an orchestra concerto and the hippie band, The Paranoids, know all about a Jacobean revenge drama, 'The Courier's Tragedy.' What is Pynchon saying with the clash of these two very different societies?
