The titular event of this work is performed by Loren Passerine, as the protagonist learns from Genghis Cohen.  
The titular event of this work is performed by Loren Passerine, as the protagonist learns from Genghis Cohen.  The protagonist reads the Peregrinations of Diocletian Blobb, a text shown her by Emory Bortz, which may or may not be one of the final clues to a mystery.  Earlier, she fails to use the Nefastis Machine properly, meets Mike Fallopian at the Scope, and attends a performance of Richard Wharfinger's The Courier's Tragedy, at which she first hears the word "Tristero."  At the start of it all, she learns that she has been made an executor of the will of her late boyfriend, Pierce Inverarity.  FTP, name this novel about Oedipa Mass, a work of Thomas Pynchon.
The titular event of this work is performed by Loren Passerine, as the protagonist learns from Genghis Cohen.  
The Crying of Lot 49