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1、TheCryingofLot49AhardcovereditionofthisbookwasoriginallypublishedbyJ.B.LippincottCompany.AportionofthisnovelwasfirstpublishedinEsquireMagazineunderthetitle"TheWorld(ThisOne),theFlesh(Mrs.OedipaMaas),andtheTestamentofPierceInverarity."AnotherportionappearedinCava
2、lier.thecryingoflot49.Copyright©1966,1965byThomasPynchon.Allrightsreserved.PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica.Nopartofthisbookmaybeusedorreproducedinanymannerwhatsoeverwithoutwrittenpermissionexceptinthecaseofbriefquotationsembodiedincriticalarticlesandreviews.Fo
3、rinformationaddressHarper&Row,Publishers,Inc.,10East53rdStreet,NewYork,N.Y.10022.Firstperennialfictionlibraryeditionpublished1986.Reissued1990.LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationDataPynchon,ThomasThecryingoflot49.*I.Title.II.Title:Cryingoflotforty-nine.PS
4、3566.Y55C791986813'.5485-45221ISBN0-06-091307-X(pbk.)9091929394MFC109876543211onesummerafternoonMrsOedipaMaascamehomefromaTupperwarepartywhosehostesshadputperhapstoomuchkirschinthefonduetofindthatshe,Oedipa,hadbeennamedexecutor,orshesupposedexecutrix,oftheestate
5、ofonePierceInverarity,aCaliforniarealestatemogulwhohadoncelosttwomillioncollarsinhissparetimebutstillhadassetsnumerousandtangledenoughtomakethejobofsortingitalloutmorethanhonorary.Oedipastoodinthelivingroom,staredatbythegreenishdeadeyeoftheTVtube,spokethenameofG
6、od,triedtofeelasdrunkaspossible.Butthisdidnotwork.ShethoughtofahotelroominMazatlanwhosedoorhadjustbeenslammed,itseemedforever,wakinguptwohundredbirdsdowninthelobby;asunriseoverthelibraryslopeatCornellUniversitythatnobodyoutonithadseenbecausetheslopefaceswest;adr
7、y,disconsolatetunefromthefourthmovementoftheBartokConcertoforOrchestra;awhitewashedbustofJayGouldthatPiercekeptoverthebedonashelfsonarrowforitshe'dalwayshadthehoveringfearitwouldsomedaytoppleonthem.Wasthathowhe'ddied,shewondered,amongdreams,crushedbytheonlyikoni
8、nthehouse?Thatonlymadeherlaugh,outloudandhelpless:You'resosick,Oedipa,shetoldherself,ortheroom,whichknew.TheletterwasfromthelawfirmofWarpe,Wist-full,KubitschekandMcMi
