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Miles
The Paranoids are a band of marijuana-smoking hippie teenagers (including Miles) who closely imitate the Beatles, even to the point of singing in British accents. They provide background music during much of Oedipa’s time in San Narciso, and they take a particular interest in her affair with Metzger, even dropping by Oedipa’s room at times to watch her and Metzger have sex. During a day trip to Fangoso Lagoons, the Paranoids alert Oedipa to the similarity between Manny Di Presso’s story about soldiers’ bones being dug out of a lake to make the bone charcoal filters for Beaconsfield cigarettes and the plot of Wharfinger’s play The Courier’s Tragedy.
The Paranoids Quotes in The Crying of Lot 49
The The Crying of Lot 49 quotes below are all either spoken by The Paranoids or refer to The Paranoids. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 2
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Outside a fugue of guitars had begun, and she counted each electronic voice as it came in, till she reached six or so and recalled only three of the Paranoids played guitars; so others must be plugging in.
Which indeed they were. Her climax and Metzger's, when it came, coincided with every light in the place, including the TV tube, suddenly going out, dead, black. It was a curious experience. The Paranoids had blown a fuse.
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The Paranoids Quotes in The Crying of Lot 49
The The Crying of Lot 49 quotes below are all either spoken by The Paranoids or refer to The Paranoids. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 2
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Outside a fugue of guitars had begun, and she counted each electronic voice as it came in, till she reached six or so and recalled only three of the Paranoids played guitars; so others must be plugging in.
Which indeed they were. Her climax and Metzger's, when it came, coincided with every light in the place, including the TV tube, suddenly going out, dead, black. It was a curious experience. The Paranoids had blown a fuse.
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