Insanity

The significant passage I chose this week comes from page 140 in the last paragraph and continues onto page 141, "Either way, they'll call it paranoia...Or you are fantasying some such plot, in which case you are a nut, Oedipa, out of your skull."

To start off, I figured that after reading the final chapter of this book, I would be relieved of all my confusion. Unfortunately, I'm just as confused as when I read the first paragraph. I chose this quote for two different reasons. The first, Oedipa and I have a connection! We are both extremely confused at this point and have no idea what's going on. Of course, her sitaution is much more complicated than mine. This brings me to the second reason, is this situation even real? Or just within Oedipa's mind? The one thing that was truly made clear throughout the entire book was the theme of communication. It's evident in Pierce's will to Oedipa and the whole idea of the "postal service." At this point in the novel, things should be coming together and answers should be given. Oedipa recieves information about the Trystero that is helpful, but there still seems to be many gaps. Who is trying to convey all this information to Oedipa? Is Pierce a consipirator in the Trystero, or is it simply just a part of San Narciso that Oedipa happened to stumble upon? Her sanity is crumbling at this point, and the "true communicator" to Oedipa is never revealed. I also feel like sanity played a huge role in the book as well. It could possibly be that Oedipa did make this up in her head and is trying to connect things that don't have any connection at all. We can see insanity in within many characters in the book: Mucho Maas on LSD, Dr. Hilarius with the Israelis, and ultimately Driblette killing himself. In my point of view, I personally think the writer had some sanity issues, some things in the book were so farfetched and I had no idea how they were linked to the book. The ending did not serve me any justice, but hopefully there was some conclusion in Oedipa's mystery. Hopefully the mysterious auctioneer "crying" for Lot 49 helped Oedipa come to some sort of closure and to bring back sanity into her life.