ATDTDA (2): Lew Basnight

[Mark Kohut]

why, d'ya suppose more than one reviewer---although later ones might have repeated one good reviewer---said Lew Basnight was "unnecessary" in ATD?......could have been left out?
   
  Working premise: Pynchon isn't perfect but 
  1) He knows what he is at least attempting with every character, every scene, every word, no?        So, Lew Basnight is not a superfluous character.
   
  2) What is his major function in ATD?....So far...
   
  3) And as we read?
   
  

David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
  I'm sure that was a part of the intention.

Spoiler below:





But this theme gets repeated a number of times in the book:
punishment, imprisonment, etc. for some unnamed past transgression.

David Morris

On 2/8/07, Mark Kohut wrote:
> Does anyone else think of the religious concept of Original Sin when they hear of Lew's 'unknown sin"?


 
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