Questions about Crying of Lot 49

After reading the first three chapters of Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49, discuss the following:

1. Though the most obvious reference is the name of Miles’s band, The Paranoids, there are several other instances of paranoia in the early chapters of the novel. What role does it seem to play so far in the novel? Is Oedipa also paranoid, or merely surrounded by other paranoid characters?
2. There have been many forms of communication so far in the novel: a phone call, a letter, a radio station, a TV, a play, a “religious moment,” and images scrawled on a bathroom wall. What role does communication play at this point in the novel? How effective are they at communicating useful information?
3. There is a lot of motionlessness in the early chapters, which is also countered at times by a sense of chaos (though this may be imagined). What do you think this represents?