ATD SPOILER p 262-269

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Then there's Frenesi Gates' betrayal of "The Movement"---the
"Big Bang" was Lake, circling around this totally artificial 
quartering of the desert with Fresno/Kindred inside her. 
Like Hank Williams Jr. would put it: Frenesi Gates is 
just carrying on "A Family Tradition".

The more I think about it, the more it looks like:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternion

And if that ain't the Chums of Chance vertical view on
the scene, I don't know what is.


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From: Jasper Fidget <jasper at fastmail.fm>
> gp wrote:
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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?
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> I got the sense Lake believed she deserved it.  If, as has been 
> postulated, a person/character is what they DO, they are also what they 
> have done, and are  responsible for it.  Webb is held responsible for 
> blowing up mine infrastructure, Deuce and Sloat are forced into taking 
> responsibility for killing Webb (ironically because their customer 
> believes they failed to do so), Reef feels responsible for getting 
> revenge, Frank feels responsible for checking in on his mother and 
> sister, and Lake accepts responsibility for being with Deuce while 
> knowing he killed her father, her descent into debauchery a form of 
> punishment she inflicts upon herself.