How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
"I don't know what's inside them." (1.25)
Why doesn't Oedipa trust Hilarius or his drugs? If she had taken them, how might it change your perception of what is real and what is not? Why are so many men trying to drug Oedipa?
Quote #2
"We still need a hundred-and-fourth for the bridge." Chuckled aridly. The bridge, die Brucke, being his pet name for the experiment he was helping the community hospital run on effects of LSD-25, mescaline, psilocybin, and related drugs on a large sample of suburban housewives. The bridge inward. (1.28)
How is this a real reflection of what was going on in the 1960s? How crazy is it that Oedipa's therapist is trying to talk her into doing LSD?
Quote #3
What the road really was, she fancied, was this hypodermic needle, inserted somewhere ahead into the vein of a freeway, a vein nourishing the mainliner L.A., keeping it happy, coherent, protected from pain, or whatever passes, with a city, for pain. (2.4)
What does a highway entering a city have in common with a vein being shot up with drugs to keep the individual happy? Why do you think Oedipa is drawn to this drug imagery?