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The Crying of Lot 49 is a novella by Thomas Pynchon, first published in 1966. The shortest of Pynchon's novels, it is about a woman, Oedipa Maas, possibly unearthing the centuries-old conflict between two mail…
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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?
