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went easy on the makeup.
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These are her resources: makeup, clothes, hair.
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With them she can occupy all these different roles,
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and in doing so she has access to certain kinds of knowledge.
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Her roles are as fluid, in some ways, as Pierce's were.
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Remember that when Pierce calls her, he's always impersonating someone.
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So, he was speaking with his Lamont Cranston voice
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the last time that she spoke to him.
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The difference between the way Oedipa occupies these various roles,
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and Pierce did it, is that Oedipa's roles have a kind of traction
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in the world with other people that
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Pierce's voices-- or even Dr. Hilarius's voices--