ATDTDA (2): Lew Basnight

[David Morris]

Pynchon is always exploring the dynamics of power relationships.  In
order to be punished for a sin, there has to be a code and its
transgression.  The author and enforcer of that code is subject to
other codes, the ultimate one (in a novel) being the one that the
reader brings to bear upon what he's reading.  This is his daisy
chain-mail mesh of fuckee and fucker, and all the (us?) voyeurs
watching and masturbating.

I'm sure this is only a part of the intention of AtD characters being
punished for sins undisclosed, long forgotten.

David Morris

On 2/8/07, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> So what might it mean in Pynchon's "vision"...Question to think and talk about as we read, I would say. yes?