How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
"Another bottle tonight would put you to sleep. No." (2.65)
What does this reveal about how Metzger is using alcohol? Why do you think Oedipa goes along with it?
Quote #5
The time in between had been whiled away with songs by the Paranoids, and juicing, and feeding pieces of eggplant sandwich to a flock of not too bright seagulls who'd mistaken Fangoso Langoons for the Pacific, and hearing the plot of The Courier's Tragedy, by Richard Wharfinger, related near to unintelligible by eight memories unlooping progressively into regions as strange to map as their rising coils and clouds of pot smoke. (3.113)
How does the shape of this sentence capture the confusion Oedipa feels at listening to the narrator's pot-affected narration of The Courier's Tragedy?
Quote #6
At some indefinite passage in night's sonorous score, it also came to her that she would be safe, that something, perhaps only her linearly fading drunkenness, would protect her. (5.79)
How does the fact that Oedipa is drunk for much of her night in San Francisco affect how you perceive events? Explain the illusion she senses that her drunkenness will protect her? Does that explain why she got drunk in the first place?