Being totally honest, I haven't actually read a true academically assigned novel since high school. I took English at the University of Tampa last year and we strictly read short stories and excerpts. Needless to say, I was not exactly looking forward to the time commitment that this reading was going to entail. However, I can say that after reading the first chapter there is enough action to hopefully keep my attention for the length of the novel.
In the first chapter, we meet the main characters: Oepida, Pierce (deceased), Mucho Maas, Dr. Hilarius, and Roseman. Oepida is a woman who finds herself in a predicament when her ex-boyfriend leaves her entitled to his company when he passes; this woman, mind you, is married to her current husband Mucho Maas now. She is confused and not certain of how to do anything with the "messy" company that she was left with and she doesn't believe that her husband will be of much help in figuring it out. Then we find out that Dr. Hilarius (ironic name after hearing what he what he asks of her) calls to ask her to participate in an experiment involving LSD- kind of weird and thankfully she declines his offer. Though maybe if she did participate it would make the story a bit more intriguing!
Since we are discussing chapter one, paragraph one, in class tomorrow I thought I would discuss it a little also. As I described earlier, Oepida found out she was the inheritor of the Pierce estate. When she heard the news, she was under the influence and many thoughts ran through her mind. She thought of a place in Mexico, a Mazatlan door slamming and waking many birds and in the same thought talked of a sunrise at Cornell University that no one could see. She wondered about Pierce, her dead ex boyfriend, and these thoughts made her believe she herself was sick and troubled. I was a little confused at some of her contradicting thoughts, but at the same time she was under the influence of alcohol so weird thoughts aren't exactly unheard of at moments like that.
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