How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
Into the mixing of the twilight's whiskey sours against the arrival of her husband, Wendell ("Mucho") Maas from work, she wondered, wondered, shuffling back through a fat deckful of days which seemed (wouldn't she be first to admit it?) more or less identical, or all pointing the same way subtly like a conjurer's deck, any odd one readily clear to a trained eye. (1.2)
What does the phrase "a fat deckful of days" suggest about the way that Oedipa perceives the passage of time? Why does she sense that she is living a day in a "conjurer's deck"? Does this have a basis in reality or it just part of her imagination?
Quote #2
A number of frail girls with heart-shaped faces, huge eyes, spun-gold hair, prisoners in the top room of a circular tower, embroidering a kind of tapestry which spilled out the slit windows and into a void, seeking hopelessly to fill the void: for all the other buildings and creatures, all the waves, ships and forests of the earth were contained in this tapestry, and the tapestry was the world. (1.55)
What does Remedios Varo's painting suggest about the nature of Oedipa's time in Mexico? What does it suggest about Oedipa's later struggle with the Tristero?