Inamorati Anonymous is a fictional secret organization modeled on Alcoholics Anonymous. Like Tristero, it uses the muted horn symbol as its emblem. The Inamorati Anonymous’s purpose is to cure people of their addiction to love, which they consider dangerous, and help people live happily without human relationships. As a parody of 20th-century American culture’s extreme individualism and tendency to value human life thorough economic measures at the expense of all else, the Inamorati Anonymous shows what happens when people follow the model of corporate capitalism in their personal lives. In fact, the organization’s founder was a disgruntled Yoyodyne executive who could not figure out what to do with himself after losing his job to a computer.
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Inamorati Anonymous Term Timeline in The Crying of Lot 49
The timeline below shows where the term Inamorati Anonymous appears in The Crying of Lot 49. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 5
...the man reveals that his muted horn pin means he is a member of the Inamorati Anonymous , a support group for people who want to cure their addiction to love. Their...
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The founder of the Inamorati Anonymous is a high-ranking Yoyodyne executive who did not know what to do when he lost...
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Right before lighting himself on fire, the Inamorati Anonymous founder heard his wife entering the house with the man who fired him and having...
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The Inamorati Anonymous member admits that nobody knows who this founder is, but he proposes that Oedipa try...
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Chapter 6
...calling The Greek Way from a phone booth and asking for the man from the Inamorati Anonymous . She introduces herself as Arnold Snarb, and she tells the man everything she has...
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