W.A.S.T.E

What does the hieroglyphic mean? What does W.A.S.T.E mean? Chapter 4 does not reveal that much, and we know about just as much as we did when we read chapter 3. We now know that WASTE is not pronounced like a word, instead each individual letter is pronounce separately since it is an acronym, "It's W.A.S.T.E., lad, an acronym, not 'waste,' and we had best not go into it any further." The man saying that they should not go into the subject any further, makes it appear like a secret underworld mystery. The main Character, Oedipa, realises that an old man has a ring with the hieroglyphic on it. She asks about it, and he just shrugs. We also know that the symbol is ,"A post horn the Thurn and Taxis Symbol," and that it was their, "coat of arm" and that "Tacit lies the gold once-knotted horn." I don't know what the author of the book is trying to get to, but at the same time, I don't know what I'm trying to get to with this blog.