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* PosthumousCharacter: Pierce Inverarity.
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* ShoutOut: When Serge of The Paranoids loses his 16-year old girlfriend to a middle-aged man, he writes a song that namechecks [[Literature/{{Lolita}} Humbert Humbert]]. As you would expect from a Pynchon novel, there are dozens of others.
** He then contemplates hanging around playgrounds to pick up a 8-year-old girlfriend, since his own was stolen by a man twice her age.
*** Still on the ''Lolita'' train, it also contains an early usage of the term “nymphet”, which might have helped popularize it. Now you could tell that Pynchon was Nabokov’s student at Cornell University (ironically, Nabokov himself didn’t remember him at all).
** He then contemplates hanging around playgrounds to pick up a 8-year-old girlfriend, since his own was stolen by a man twice her age.
*** Still on the ''Lolita'' train, it also contains an early usage of the term “nymphet”, which might have helped popularize it. Now you could tell that Pynchon was Nabokov’s student at Cornell University (ironically, Nabokov himself didn’t remember him at all).
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* ShoutOut: When Serge of The Paranoids loses his 16-year old girlfriend to a middle-aged man, he writes a song that namechecks [[Literature/{{Lolita}} Humbert Humbert]]. As you would expect from a Pynchon novel, there are dozens of others.
**others.He then contemplates hanging around playgrounds to pick up a 8-year-old girlfriend, since his own was stolen by a man twice her age.
*** Still on the ''Lolita'' train, itage. It also contains an early usage of the term “nymphet”, which might have helped popularize it. Now you could tell that Pynchon was Nabokov’s student at Cornell University (ironically, Nabokov himself didn’t remember him at all).
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* TitleDrop: The very last words of the novella.
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Pynchon’s style evolve further in ''Lot 49'' after ''V.'', which is simplistic and basic in comparison. The novel can also be seen as a bridge between Modernism and {{Postmodernism}}, which will be fully explore in ''Gravity’s Rainbow''.
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Pynchon’s style evolve further in ''Lot 49'' after ''V.'', which is simplistic straightforward and basic in comparison. The novel can also be seen as a bridge between Modernism and {{Postmodernism}}, which will be fully explore in ''Gravity’s Rainbow''.
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Pynchon’s style evolve further in ''Lot 49'' after ''V.'', which is simplistic and basic in comparison. The novel can also be seen as a bridge between Modernism and Postmodernism, {{Postmodernism}}, which will be fully explore in ''Gravity’s Rainbow''.
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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Several real people, such as William of Orange, appear in Trystero's backstory.
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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Several real people, such as William of Orange, appear in Trystero's Trystero’s backstory.
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* ItWasHereISwear: Evidence of Trystero's activities often swiftly vanishes when Oedipa returns to them.
* MagicalRealism: Once the (possibly functional) Maxwell's demon device shows up the novel moves firmly into this territory.
* MeaningfulName: Deliberately subverted at multiple points. Oepida fails to solve a riddle and never commits incest, Mr. Thoth isn't especially wise, and Genghis Cohen is not a barbarian overlord. Dr. Hilarius, however, is pretty funny.
* MagicalRealism: Once the (possibly functional) Maxwell's demon device shows up the novel moves firmly into this territory.
* MeaningfulName: Deliberately subverted at multiple points. Oepida fails to solve a riddle and never commits incest, Mr. Thoth isn't especially wise, and Genghis Cohen is not a barbarian overlord. Dr. Hilarius, however, is pretty funny.
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* ItWasHereISwear: Evidence of Trystero's Trystero’s activities often swiftly vanishes when Oedipa returns to them.
* MagicalRealism: Once the (possibly functional)Maxwell's Maxwell’s demon device shows up the novel moves firmly into this territory.
* MeaningfulName: Deliberately subverted at multiple points. Oepida fails to solve a riddle and never commits incest, Mr. Thothisn't isn’t especially wise, and Genghis Cohen is not a barbarian overlord. Dr. Hilarius, however, is pretty funny.
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Though it is significantly shorter than the rest of Pynchon’s novels (especially ''Literature/AgainstTheDay'' and ''Literature/MasonAndDixon''), it has become one of Pynchon's most popular books, after ''Literature/GravitysRainbow'' and possibly ''Literature/{{V}}'' Time magazine included it in its “TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005”.
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Though it is significantly shorter than the rest of Pynchon’s novels (especially ''Literature/AgainstTheDay'' and ''Literature/MasonAndDixon''), it has become one of Pynchon's Pynchon’s most popular books, after ''Literature/GravitysRainbow'' and possibly ''Literature/{{V}}'' Time magazine included it in its “TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005”.
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* TheCameo: Bloody Chiclitz from ''Literature/V'' appears briefly and sang a song.
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* TheCameo: Bloody Chiclitz from ''Literature/V'' appears briefly and sang a song.
* ContinuityNod: Bloody Chiclitz and the Yoyodyne company from ''V.'' appearsbriefly and sang a song.in this.
* ContinuityNod: Bloody Chiclitz and the Yoyodyne company from ''V.'' appears
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* NoEnding: Because it's a Pynchon novel. [[spoiler:The novel ends just as Oedipa is making headway into her investigation, without telling us what she finds.]]
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* NoEnding: Because it's it’s a Pynchon novel. [[spoiler:The novel ends just as Oedipa is making headway into her investigation, without telling us what she finds.]]
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*** Still on the ''Lolita'' train, it also contains an early usage of the term "nymphet", which might have helped popularize it. Now you could tell that Pynchon was Nabokov's student at Cornell University (ironically, Nabokov himself didn't remember him at all).
* ShowWithinAShow: ''The Courier's Tragedy'', a fictional Jacobean revenge play.
* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: It's never explained whether the events of the novel are really happening, or if it's all a big practical joke carried out by Pierce Inverarity, or if Oedipa is simply going mad. Oedipa herself acknowledges that all of these are eminently plausible.
* ShowWithinAShow: ''The Courier's Tragedy'', a fictional Jacobean revenge play.
* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: It's never explained whether the events of the novel are really happening, or if it's all a big practical joke carried out by Pierce Inverarity, or if Oedipa is simply going mad. Oedipa herself acknowledges that all of these are eminently plausible.
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*** Still on the ''Lolita'' train, it also contains an early usage of the term "nymphet", “nymphet”, which might have helped popularize it. Now you could tell that Pynchon was Nabokov's Nabokov’s student at Cornell University (ironically, Nabokov himself didn't didn’t remember him at all).
* ShowWithinAShow: ''TheCourier's Courier’s Tragedy'', a fictional Jacobean revenge play.
* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness:It's It’s never explained whether the events of the novel are really happening, or if it's all a big practical joke carried out by Pierce Inverarity, or if Oedipa is simply going mad. Oedipa herself acknowledges that all of these are eminently plausible.
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Pynchon’s style evolve further in ''Lot 49'' after ''V.'', which is simplistic and basic in comparison. The novel can also be seen as a bridge between Modernism and Postmodernism, which will be fully transformed explore in ''Gravity’s Rainbow''.
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* BloodyHilarious: ''The Courier's Tragedy'', a (fictional) Jacobean revenge play that features in Chapter 3.
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->“Cherish it!” cried Hilarious, fiercely. “What else do any of you have? Hold it tightly by its little tentacle, don’t let the Freudians coax it away or the pharmacists poison it out of you. Whatever it is, hold it dear, for when you lose it you go over by that much to the others. You begin to cease to be.”
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->“Cherish it!” cried Hilarious, Hilarius, fiercely. “What else do any of you have? Hold it tightly by its little tentacle, don’t let the Freudians coax it away or the pharmacists poison it out of you. Whatever it is, hold it dear, for when you lose it you go over by that much to the others. You begin to cease to be.”
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->“Cherish it!” cried Hilarious, fiercely. “What else do any of you have? Hold it tightly by it's its little tentacle, don't don’t let the Freudians coax it away or the pharmacists poison it out of you. Whatever it is, hold it dear, for when you lose it you go over by that much to the others. You begin to cease to be.”
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->“I came,” she said, “hoping you could talk me out of a fantasy.”
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->“Cherish it!” cried Hilarious, fiercely. “What else do any of you have? Hold it tightly by it's little tentacle, don't let the Freudians coax it away or the pharmacists poison it out of you. Whatever it is, hold it dear, for when you lose it you go over by that much to the others. You begin to cease to be.”
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Though it is significantly shorter than the rest of Pynchon’s novels (especially ''Literature/{{Against the Day}}'' and ''Literature/MasonAndDixon''), it has become one of Pynchon's most popular books, after ''Literature/GravitysRainbow'' and possibly ''Literature/{{V}}''. Time magazine included it in its “TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005”.
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Though it is significantly shorter than the rest of Pynchon’s novels (especially ''Literature/{{Against the Day}}'' ''Literature/AgainstTheDay'' and ''Literature/MasonAndDixon''), it has become one of Pynchon's most popular books, after ''Literature/GravitysRainbow'' and possibly ''Literature/{{V}}''. ''Literature/{{V}}'' Time magazine included it in its “TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005”.
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* FunWithAcronyms: '''D'''on't '''E'''ver '''A'''ntagonize '''T'''he '''H'''orn, '''W'''e '''A'''wait '''S'''ilent '''T'''ristero's '''E'''mpire, etc.
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Though it is significantly shorter than the rest of Pynchon’s novels (especially ''Against ''Literature/{{Against the Day'' Day}}'' and ''Mason & Dixon''), ''Literature/MasonAndDixon''), it has become one of Pynchon's most popular books, after ''Literature/GravitysRainbow'' and possibly ''Literature/{{V}}''. Time magazine included it in its “TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005”.
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Though it is significantly shorter than the rest of Pynchon’s novels (especially ''Against the Day'' and ''Mason & Dixon''), it has become one of Pynchon's most popular books, after ''Literature/GravitysRainbow'' and possibly ''Literature/{{V}}''. Time magazine included it in its "“TIME “TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005”.
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''The Crying of Lot 49'' is a 1966 novel (or perhaps novella) by Creator/ThomasPynchon. It is about a woman named Oedipa Maas who unravels the rivalry between two mail distribution companies, Trystero and Thurn und Taxis. Possibly. Or maybe it's an elaborate prank. [[MindScrew Or maybe she is actually hallucinating it all.]]
Though it is significantly shorter than the rest of Pynchon's novels (especially ''Against the Day'' and ''Mason & Dixon''), it has become one of Pynchon's most popular books, after ''Literature/GravitysRainbow'' and possibly ''Literature/{{V}}''. Time magazine included it in its "TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005".
Not to be confused with "[[Literature/LotNo249 Lot No. 249]]", a {{Mummy}} horror story by Franchise/SherlockHolmes creator Sir Creator/ArthurConanDoyle.
Though it is significantly shorter than the rest of Pynchon's novels (especially ''Against the Day'' and ''Mason & Dixon''), it has become one of Pynchon's most popular books, after ''Literature/GravitysRainbow'' and possibly ''Literature/{{V}}''. Time magazine included it in its "TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005".
Not to be confused with "[[Literature/LotNo249 Lot No. 249]]", a {{Mummy}} horror story by Franchise/SherlockHolmes creator Sir Creator/ArthurConanDoyle.
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''The Crying of Lot 49'' is a 1966 novel (or perhaps novella) by Creator/ThomasPynchon. It is about a woman named Oedipa Maas who unravels the rivalry between two mail distribution companies, Trystero and Thurn und Taxis. Possibly. Or maybe it's it’s an elaborate prank. [[MindScrew Or maybe she is actually hallucinating it all.]]
Though it is significantly shorter than the rest ofPynchon's Pynchon’s novels (especially ''Against the Day'' and ''Mason & Dixon''), it has become one of Pynchon's most popular books, after ''Literature/GravitysRainbow'' and possibly ''Literature/{{V}}''. Time magazine included it in its "TIME "“TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005".
2005”.
Not to be confused with"[[Literature/LotNo249 “[[Literature/LotNo249 Lot No. 249]]", 249]]”, a {{Mummy}} horror story by Franchise/SherlockHolmes creator Sir Creator/ArthurConanDoyle.
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* MeaningfulName: Largely subverted. Oepida fails to solve a riddle and never commits incest, Mr. Thoth isn't especially wise, and Genghis Cohen is not a barbarian overlord. Dr. Hilarius, however, is pretty goddamn funny.
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* MeaningfulName: Largely subverted.Deliberately subverted at multiple points. Oepida fails to solve a riddle and never commits incest, Mr. Thoth isn't especially wise, and Genghis Cohen is not a barbarian overlord. Dr. Hilarius, however, is pretty goddamn funny.
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Though it is significantly shorter than the rest of Pynchon's novels (especially ''Against the Day'' and ''Mason & Dixon''), it has become one of Pynchon's most popular books, after ''Literature/GravitysRainbow'' and possibly ''Literature/{{V}}.''.''Literature/{{V}}''. Time magazine included it in its "TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005".
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Though it is significantly shorter than the rest of Pynchon's novels (especially ''Against the Day'' and ''Mason & Dixon''), it has become one of Pynchon's most popular books, after ''Literature/GravitysRainbow'' and possibly ''V''. Time magazine included it in its "TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005".
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Though it is significantly shorter than the rest of Pynchon's novels (especially ''Against the Day'' and ''Mason & Dixon''), it has become one of Pynchon's most popular books, after ''Literature/GravitysRainbow'' and possibly ''V''.''Literature/{{V}}.''. Time magazine included it in its "TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005".
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* ConspiracyTheory: The overall fuel for the novel's plot, is using conspiracy as a method by which to guide a character into a labyrinthine reality where random chance and tangents brush up with one another. The fact that these connections are tangential, random and are ambiguous in terms of "meaning" fuels the overall paranoid nature of the story.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: A lot of this is more on the part of the characters than Pynchon himself (who usually knows his stuff) and the basic errors in facts probably indicates their loose grasp on history. Mike Fallopian for instance notes that the Russian Tsar who abolished serfdom (and according to him, attacked Peter Pinguid to prevent France and England intervening on behalf of the South) is Nicholas II. The Tsar is actually Alexander II, while Nicholas II was the last tsar in Russian history, executed alongside his family by the Bolshevik regime at Yekaterinaburg.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: A lot of this is more on the part of the characters than Pynchon himself (who usually knows his stuff) and the basic errors in facts probably indicates indicate their loose grasp on history. Mike Fallopian for instance notes that the Russian Tsar who abolished serfdom (and according to him, attacked Peter Pinguid to prevent France and England intervening on behalf of the South) is Nicholas II. The Tsar is actually Alexander II, while Nicholas II was the last tsar in Russian history, executed alongside his family by the Bolshevik regime at Yekaterinaburg.
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* MundaneMadeAwesome: The central conspiracy of the novel concerns a centuries-old rivalry between two mail companies.
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* ShoutOut: When Serge of The Paranoids loses his 16-year old girlfriend to a middle-aged man, he writes a song that namechecks [[{{Lolita}} Humbert Humbert]]. As you would expect from a Pynchon novel, there are dozens of others.
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* ShoutOut: When Serge of The Paranoids loses his 16-year old girlfriend to a middle-aged man, he writes a song that namechecks [[{{Lolita}} [[Literature/{{Lolita}} Humbert Humbert]]. As you would expect from a Pynchon novel, there are dozens of others.