Chapter five of this book is the longest and most confusing chapter of all. The beginning of the chapter is very strange but near the middle it gets very interesting. This is where the story gets more complicated and very strange events start to happen.
In one of this very interescting sections Pynchon talks about love as a very damaging addiction:
"The pin Im wearing means I´m a member of the IA. That´s Inamoraty Anonymous. An Inamorato is somebody in love. Thats the worst addiction of all." (Page 91)
The fact that tere is an association such as the AA (Alcoholics Anonymous) to prevent people from falling in love is very interesting because the fact that someone is in love is normally seen as soething good and poetic. Everyone has fallen in love some time and there are many different ways that people might react to the feeling, but to the point of makingit an addiction is a very extreme case.The fact that these group of people have an enterprise against falling in love is very strange. I had never thought about love in a way in which it would be harmfull and addicting.
The way that this group of people supossedly help people is also very interesting, there is a phone nnumber, to which they call in order to get asistance.
"Nobody Knows anybody else´s name;just the number in case it gets so bad you cant handle it alone. We´re Isolates, Arnold. Meetings would destroy the whole point of it." (Page 91)
The fact that a such impersonal way of helping each other is apllied regarding to such a supossedly delicate theme is very contradicting. The fact that you cant handle your love alone as itsays on the beggining of the quote is also important, because normally people would meditate on their love alone and think about what they should do by themselves. Most of th times beingin love isvery private and personal.
A second important part of this chapter is Oedipas meeting with doctor Hilarius, Oedipa has just spent a heavy night in San Francisco in which the symbol ifthe tryatero has appeared a number of times and she thinks shes starting to become obssesed and even crazy about it. When she gets to Hilarious office she realizes he has gone crazy.
"What´s happening?" Oedipa said. "He´s gone crazy. I tried to talk to the police,but he took a chair andsmashed the switch board with it." (Page 108)
Oedipas psichiatrist doctor Hilarious has gone crazy, this is ery ironic for he is supossed to helpthose that are becoming crazy or are crazy allready. also the fat that one of his assistants stayed becaue "He might need somebody" (page 108) is very ironic because he is the one that is supossed to be there when others need somebody. Thats exactly the reason why Oedipa whent to him that night, because she needed somebody to talk to and somebody who knew if she was becoming crazy.
Pynchon also talks about how people become crazy and start shooting at others, like the many examples of kids that have gone crazy and started shooting at schools or universities.
"Well hes shot at half a dozen people," replied nurse Blamm, leading Oedipa down a corridor to her office." (Page 108)
Doctor Hilarius thinks hes being followed, so he shoots at anyone he sees, he doesnt care if it is a patient or even the police. He is in a state of paranoia, where he thinks that everyone is against him. In this same scene Pynchon makes fun of the ridiculous amount of stupid questions that policemen do when invesstigatingor dealing with any sort of situation and how the media is always inside the most dangerous places.
"Who are you, lady". She told him. "how do you spell that first name?" He also took down her adress, age, phone number, next of kin, husands occupation, for the news media" (page 111)
In one of this very interescting sections Pynchon talks about love as a very damaging addiction:
"The pin Im wearing means I´m a member of the IA. That´s Inamoraty Anonymous. An Inamorato is somebody in love. Thats the worst addiction of all." (Page 91)
The fact that tere is an association such as the AA (Alcoholics Anonymous) to prevent people from falling in love is very interesting because the fact that someone is in love is normally seen as soething good and poetic. Everyone has fallen in love some time and there are many different ways that people might react to the feeling, but to the point of makingit an addiction is a very extreme case.The fact that these group of people have an enterprise against falling in love is very strange. I had never thought about love in a way in which it would be harmfull and addicting.
The way that this group of people supossedly help people is also very interesting, there is a phone nnumber, to which they call in order to get asistance.
"Nobody Knows anybody else´s name;just the number in case it gets so bad you cant handle it alone. We´re Isolates, Arnold. Meetings would destroy the whole point of it." (Page 91)
The fact that a such impersonal way of helping each other is apllied regarding to such a supossedly delicate theme is very contradicting. The fact that you cant handle your love alone as itsays on the beggining of the quote is also important, because normally people would meditate on their love alone and think about what they should do by themselves. Most of th times beingin love isvery private and personal.
A second important part of this chapter is Oedipas meeting with doctor Hilarius, Oedipa has just spent a heavy night in San Francisco in which the symbol ifthe tryatero has appeared a number of times and she thinks shes starting to become obssesed and even crazy about it. When she gets to Hilarious office she realizes he has gone crazy.
"What´s happening?" Oedipa said. "He´s gone crazy. I tried to talk to the police,but he took a chair andsmashed the switch board with it." (Page 108)
Oedipas psichiatrist doctor Hilarious has gone crazy, this is ery ironic for he is supossed to helpthose that are becoming crazy or are crazy allready. also the fat that one of his assistants stayed becaue "He might need somebody" (page 108) is very ironic because he is the one that is supossed to be there when others need somebody. Thats exactly the reason why Oedipa whent to him that night, because she needed somebody to talk to and somebody who knew if she was becoming crazy.
Pynchon also talks about how people become crazy and start shooting at others, like the many examples of kids that have gone crazy and started shooting at schools or universities.
"Well hes shot at half a dozen people," replied nurse Blamm, leading Oedipa down a corridor to her office." (Page 108)
Doctor Hilarius thinks hes being followed, so he shoots at anyone he sees, he doesnt care if it is a patient or even the police. He is in a state of paranoia, where he thinks that everyone is against him. In this same scene Pynchon makes fun of the ridiculous amount of stupid questions that policemen do when invesstigatingor dealing with any sort of situation and how the media is always inside the most dangerous places.
"Who are you, lady". She told him. "how do you spell that first name?" He also took down her adress, age, phone number, next of kin, husands occupation, for the news media" (page 111)
Pynchon shows how the cops cooperate with the media in order to get as most information as possible to the people, when most of the times what we see is cops fighting of reporters that are triying to find out what happened. In this case its totally different: "Tv folks would like to get soe footage through the window. Could you keep him occupied?" (Page 112) The cops give media priority and instead of triying to get this crazy man to stop shooting, they whant to have some records and show the people through media what he is doing.
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