“Frankly,” confided Funch, “since you left, Wendell hasn’t been himself.” This seems to born out in Mucho’s experience after he joins the Bridge: But I never took the drug, I chose to remain in relative paranoia, where at least I know who I am and who the others are” (111). You know, with the LSD, we’re finding, the distinction begins to vanish. He says, “There is me, there are the others. Hilarius’s findings from the Bridge program. Written in the mid-60s, Lot 49 obviously cannot address our current networked status, but the concern over the nature of the relationship between man and machine and of the effects of mediation on communication is there all the same. There is, throughout The Crying of Lot 49, a certain anxiety about the disintegration of a strong sense of self, the blurring of the ego, the dispersion of identity, in the face of nascent network technology. “Let’s face it, you are other people and other people are you”
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