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What do you think it was /lit/?
Elaborate set-up? Mental illness? International conspiracy?

>> No.6414288

oedipa was crazy
>upside down badger
>Torquato Tasso
>crazy motherfucker

>> No.6414305

I didn't bother to think about that when I read it.

>> No.6414326

On its most surface level, yes, the Trystero system is real. An age old feud in the mail system, a secret war. But the other possibilities that make us question its surface level meanings are just as legitimate. There is no single "truth", because they all are, and all serve their own purposes when seeing the story through said interpretation.

Most importantly though, is the subtext, which remains the same regardless of the ambiguous surface meanings.

>> No.6414333

I choose to think it was all set up by Inverarity, but my basis for that is only as valid as the next guy's for his theory.

P.S. Hilarius did nothing wrong.

>> No.6414337

What does Oedipa look like?

>> No.6414354

>>6414337
Sexy, but in a way which is understated.

>> No.6414371

>>6414337

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>>6414337
this

>> No.6414405

>existing mail system
>Inverarity sets up some weird stand-out things for Oedipa
>she sees them
>starts seeing the symbols everywhere
>he knows she's paranoid and would start making up a crazy narrative of it all

>> No.6414410

Lloyd Wheeler, Dr. Hilarius and Doc Sportello are all the same person

>> No.6414631

>>6414410
*Zoyd

Anyways, besides the obvious implausibility, I'm curious. Please explain.

>> No.6414638

>BEING THIS LITERAL