The last chapter begins with Oedipa going back to the hotel in San Narcisco after I think they has separated from her husband , which is not official but is more than likely. Oedipa then gets in touch with Professor Bortz and drives out to his house to talk about the play with him. On the way out to the professors house she drives by the bookstore where she first bought a copy of play and found the building burned to the ground. "Driving over she passed by Zapf's used books, and was alarmed to find a pile of charred rubble where the bookstore only a week ago had stood" pg. 122). Oedipa then went to the government surplus store next door to find out what happened. The owner of the store tells Oedipa "Zapf, the damn fool, has set fire to his own store for the insurance" pg. 122). After she finally gets to the professors house the professor says Tristero's version of the play is " A pornographic Couriers Tragedy. pg 125). Oedipa then finds out from the professor that Driblette has committed suicide and now she realized that she will never know why he mentioned the tristero in his own version of the play.
From some information that the professor gave her, which is somewhat confusing to me, Oedipa begins to put together how the Tristero was created. This too seems rather confusing to me as there are cousins fighting and going to war against each other. Oedipa then spends the next few days doing more and more relentless research and she also attends Driblette's funeral.
Oedipa eventually goes back to the scope were she talks to Mike Fallopian. She begins telling him about everything she has found out and then Mike tells her, "Has it ever occurred to you, Oedipa, that somebody's putting you on? that this is all a hoax, maybe something Inverarity set up before he died?".pg138). This thought has came across her mind before but she continues to refuse it. Oedipa talks with Mike a little more and then becomes angry and leaves the bar.
After recieving a letter from the bookstore that has already burned down Oedipa goes back to Pierce's home to do some research as the idea that he may have been playing a joke on her is finally starting to sink in. She finds out that most of the places and people she has meet along the way were in some kind of contact with Pierce. He either owned the building or had supported the person with money or help of some kind. I start to become a little more confused towards the end of the story but Oedipa finds out that Pierce's stamps on being auctioned off over a lot 49. Oedipa thinks that whoever bid on most of the stamps may be the person to talk to in order to figure out the whole thing, and then the story ends.
This book to me was good and times and at other times i didn't like it all that much. There seems to be tom much jumping around from place to place and to many character for me to keep up with. At other times it kept me on edge wondering what would happen next. To me a secrete underground mail service doesn't seem all that exciting of a story for a book. But like i said at times it did keep me wondering what would happen next. I also would have like to figure out what happened in the end instead of the story just ending.
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