In Oedipa's experience with the Demon Machine, she trys to communicate with it. She watches through the corner of her eye for the piston to move. There is a moment where she feels it move, but plays it up to an illusion. It is through this illusion that we understand how the machine and reading this book relate; both make fun of the reader.
In the book people go there to tell whether or not they are sensitive. They sit there for hours trying to talk to this machine whose purpose is to make fun of them. Same goes for the reader of this book. When reading the book we think we are sensitive to it. We feel we understand what it's trying to say, but we don't. We read way to much into everything the author gives us. To understand the book we must understand that we aren't sensitive to it.
After Oedipa trys for hours the scientist tells her to come watch T.V. and have sex with him. The only other purpose that machine is for is to help the old man fuck women. The only purpose of this book is to fuck the reader.
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