Plot Controlled

While I was reading the Crying of Lot 49 wiki  I found an interesting review here. In this article it was said that the characters in Pynchon's novels (including The Crying of Lot 49) are eventually trapped in the plot they helped build. With this I realized that Oedipa was indeed trapped on the conspiracy she had created. Even after all the people that stated the play meant nothing (from an actor within the play). Even after being told this Oedipa continues her search for meaning in words and symbols that might not have any. Then, Oedipa meets with Bortz who was very knowledgeable about the Courier's Tragedy. He explained that what she saw wasn't the actual play but a version of it in which the reference or coincidence with the word Trystero was added. In the end, Oedipa realizes that Trystero was a parallel mailing system that existed with Thrun and Taxis which eventually won the mailing monopoly.

Even if that Trystero phrase in the play was a reference to the mailing system why bother? Why did Oedipa have to go to such lengths, traveling all over California, to find about a mailing conspiracy that didn't really matter? It is even possible that the W.A.S.T.E system might be slightly relevant since its people fighting against the state's monopoly over mail but why does Trystero matter? Why does that line in the play matter? I think that this is part of the way the book breaks down. Oedipa realizes that the Trystero conspiracy might be a joke made by Pierce which adds to the feeling of absence of meaning. Finally, Oedipa ends waiting for the Crying of lot 49 to find a person which might lead to more questions than answers. This whole plot is simply part of Oedipa being trapped in an endless plot that will take her from questions to more questions without a definite answer. This explanation that is given in the review of the book in the NYT takes the whole ending of the book and makes it into a single sentence. Although this ending is Pynchon making fun of himself and the book, it could also be portraying our constant search for answers which inevitably takes us to more questions. The ending of the book could be a way to make fun at how absurd that concept is.