Isn't it wonderful? But lets just look at in the world of The Crying Of Lot 49, rather than being called "I want to hold your hand" it is called "I want to kiss your feet"
a clear mockery of The Beatles' single.
When Oedipa goes into the motel she meets with Miles "maybe 16 with a Beatle haircut" (16). When I read this I thought, "what is it with this guy, I know the Beatles were awesome but what's the point of bringing them back every two pages?" I kept on reading and my question was answered: "It's the group I'm in" Miles explained, the paranoids. We're new yet. Our manager says we should sing like that. We watch English Movies a lot, for the accent"(17). A side from the constant allusion to the Beatles I noticed the target here, how Pychon is questioning the influence this rock group had in our culture, in humans. The way they had been limiting the expression to a mediocre kind of sound, that was still a great phenomenon and will always be. How everything was controlled by them and everyone depended, in a way, on them.
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