ATD SPOILER p 262-269

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Frankly - don't you get the feeling that Pynchon meant Lake "deserved"
it in a way for shacking up with the guy who killed her dad?  She was
totally debased and suggesting that the two guys do each other is
really nothing compared to what they do to her.  Like a sort of
obscene retribution that perhaps ghost-Webb helped conspire?

On 12/4/06, pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > > Sheer speculation (perhaps dangerous in this
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> > > but I wonder if Pynchon's niece had any influence
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> > > these passages with Lake, Deuce, Sloat.
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> > > Reminds me of Frenesi and Brock in Vineland, but
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> > What I wonder, in revolving over the four corners in
> > four corners, is  this sequence related, in any way
> > to the occult overtones of the Brigidier Pudding sex
> > scene, and Geli Tripping's A. E. Waite spell/orgasm
> > in GR? Some how, the summonimg of directions
> > comes to mind. There is an even freakier scene
> > later on in the book with similar resonances.
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> I don't doubt that Pynchon has layered all kinds of
> stuff on this scene, and would follow the path you
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