She refused to take the pills or to join his experiment, Die Brücke, which tested hallucinogenic drugs on housewives. Hilarius, Oedipa's shrink, called and asked Oedipa if she was taking his tranquilizer pills. She showed Mucho the letter, but he told her to take it to their lawyer. Oedipa tried unsuccessfully to calm the fearful memories he retained from this line of work. Mucho tried as hard as he could to look and act as far from a stereotypical used car salesman as possible, but the job overwhelmed him anyhow. The used cars brought in were like sad, old, used extensions of their owners, and of life. Mucho had formerly worked as a used car salesman, a profession he did care about, until he could no longer take it. He complained, as he always did, that he did not care about the radio station, KCUF, where he was a disc jockey and that his boss, Funch, was trying to censor him. Soon, her husband, Wendell "Mucho" Maas, arrived home with his own problems.
That was the last Oedipa had heard from him. He had spoken to her in different voices, spilling out nonsense. phone call she received a year ago, made by Pierce. She did her errands downtown in Kinneret-Among-The-Pines and tried to uncover what might have happened a year ago to cause Pierce to name her in the will.įinally, during the evening news, she remembered a three A.M. The letter was signed by the co-executor, Metzger, and detailed that Pierce died a year ago but they had just found the will. Hoping to divert herself, she pushed her thoughts back to old memories of Pierce, music, and sunrises. Pierce was a California real estate mogul with a great number of assets and Oedipa was shocked to be in charge of sorting it out. Oedipa Maas came home to find a letter naming her executrix of the estate of Pierce Inverarity, a man with whom she had once had an affair.
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