Crying Of Lot 49 Flashcards
Oedipa
Wife of Mucho
. Pierce Inverarity
Oedipa’s e boyfriend who died
Metzgo
The lawyer
Manny di Presso
A lawyer who suing pierce verarity for not reveling payment after recovered and sold human bones to Inverarity
What Pierce wanted the bones For
to make charcoal for cigarette filters
What The Paranoids, a hippie band told Oedipa about Manny?
The Paranoids, a hippie band that follows Oedipa around, points out that Manny’s story is similar to that of the 17th-century play The Courier’s Tragedy
Randolph Driblette
The director of The Courier’s Tragedy
Why The play mentions the word “Tristero,” fascinates Oedipa?
because of its placement within the play.
John Nefastis
A scientist who has built a type of Mexwell’s Demon, or a physically impossible machine that allows for perpetual motion by violating the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Koteks encourages Oedipa to meet with Nefastis.
Genghis Cohen
A philatelist (stamp expert) named Genghis Cohen to go through Pierce’s stamp collection.
Where is a W.A.S.T.E. facility
under the freeway
Emory Bortz
An English professor at San Narciso College who has extensive knowledge of Jacobean revenge plays
Tristero
Tristero, which dates back to mid-16th-century Europe.
