The Crying of Lot 49- Chap. 3

So much went on in chapter three, it seems to be over a span of a year but we all know it was just a couple of days. The writing style of Thomas Pynchon confuses me at some points as he seems to rant and rave off on useless topics. The chapter starts out with the relationship of Oedipa and Metzger. They are still having an affair and having to find different ways to be sneaky about it as in doing it in the closet with Metzger's legs in the bottom of a chest drawer. There relationship is becoming something more. This relationship is fulfilling what Mucho cannot do. At the beginning of the novel, it was understood that she was going to have an affair, almost like it has happened before. Then the duo went to The Scope, the blue collar bar where there is illegal inter office mail delivery. It shows the difference in the times, where mail is a monopoly of the government and cannot be interfered with. They meet up with the Paranoids, which is a group of professionals that do crazy things as run away from there clients and steal boats off the docks. One of the Paranoids wants to sue Inverarity. His client claims, that he owes him for the bones in his man made lake. Then the story rants off on how the bones got there from war and was almost completely pointless. Then the couple went to a play and every scene of the play was morosely described in the book. I feel there was a parallel between the play and actual affair of the two. There were so many ups and downs and finally only one man standing. This is how the end of the book will be, only one man standing. The director of the play was the one who wants to sue Inverarity, so Oedipa went to talk to him a bout it but could not bring up the topic. This show the weakness of Oedipa and how she will not be able to complete the task as Executor.